A district court denied DOI's motion for summary judgment and the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation's motion for judgment on the pleadings in a lawsuit challenging a 2020 DOI opinion that…
A district court denied DOI's motion to voluntarily remand oil and gas leasing decisions in a lawsuit brought by conservation groups over BLM's 2018 instruction memorandum on greater sage-grouse…
A district court granted a pipeline company's motion for summary judgment in a challenge to its use of a four-mile strip under the Straits of Mackinac as part of its 645-mile crude oil pipeline.…
A district court granted FWS' motion to remand a challenge to its authorization of commercial grazing in Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge. Environmental groups sued, arguing the Service's…
A district court granted in part and denied in part summary judgment for environmental groups in a challenge to the Forest Service's and FWS' approval of a logging project in Custer Gallatin…
A district court dismissed for lack of standing a challenge to a 2020 Forest Service rule that expanded the Service's NEPA categorical exclusions (CEs) for logging, road construction, and other…
A district court granted in part and denied in part summary judgment for environmental groups in a challenge to the Forest Service's approval of a logging project in Kootenai National Forest. The…
The Fifth Circuit denied petitions to review FERC's approval of a natural gas pipeline expansion project in the Pacific Northwest. A pipeline company, two states, and two environmental groups…
A district court granted in part and denied in part environmental groups' motion for summary judgment in a challenge to the Forest Service's authorization of a logging project in Kootenai National…
In an unpublished opinion, the Eleventh Circuit affirmed summary judgment for the Army Corps of Engineers in a challenge to its issuance of a letter of permission for construction of a private…