A district court held that the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection may intervene in environmental groups' lawsuit challenging the DOI Secretary's approval of two…
The Tenth Circuit upheld a lower court decision denying Oklahoma's motion to preliminarily enjoin a food producer from disposing of poultry waste on lands within the Illinois River watershed…
The Ninth Circuit temporarily stayed the expansion of a phosphate mine located near the Idaho-Wyoming border. Environmental groups filed a motion to preliminarily enjoin the project, arguing that…
The Ninth Circuit reversed and remanded a lower court decision denying the trucking industry's motion to preliminarily enjoin two California ports from implementing "concession…
A district court held that the corporate successor to various legal entities at a former industrial site is not liable for various environmental cleanup expenses at the site. The city that filed…
A district court granted a motion to bar a former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator's deposition in a cost recovery action under the Comprehensive Environmental…
The Fourth Circuit held that the lower court properly dismissed homeowners' Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act and state law claims against the former…
The Sixth Circuit held that a group of 300 landowners may not divide their class action nuisance suit against a paper mill into five separate water pollution claims to avoid federal jurisdiction…
The Second Circuit vacated and remanded a lower court decision granting summary judgment in favor of a company for water pollution allegedly caused by a former subsidiary's operation of a…
A district court denied a railroad's motion to bring the state of Montana into an environmental contamination lawsuit between private property owners and the railroad. The state is immune…