Air
United States v. DTE Energy Company
The Sixth Circuit held that the CAA does not categorically prevent EPA from challenging...
Great Basin Resource Watch v. Bureau of Land Management
The Ninth Circuit held that BLM violated NEPA when it approved a proposed molybdenum mining...
Climate Change
Realizing China’s Paris Commitment to Addressing Climate Change: Challenges and Legal Solutions
Since 1990, China’s carbon emissions have increased 73% due to economic growth. Although China’s...
Competitive Enterprise Institute v. Mann
The D.C. Circuit affirmed in part a lower court's decision that a climate scientist may go...
Energy
National Biodiesel Board v EPA
The D.C. Circuit dismissed as untimely a U.S. biofuel trade group’s lawsuit challenging EPA's...
Marcellus Shale Coalition v. Department of Environmental Protection
A Pennsylvania court preliminarily enjoined the commonwealth from enforcing certain Marcellus...
Governance
Environmental Impact Assessment in China and the United States: A Comparison
Environmental impact assessment (EIA) is a fundamentally important part of the legal systems in...
Camp Lejeune North Carolina Water Contamination Litigation
A district court dismissed a multidistrict Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) lawsuit filed against...
Land Use
Addressing the Environmental Impacts of Large Infrastructure Projects: Making "Mitigation" Matter
We are in the midst of an unprecedented governmentwide focus on infrastructure permitting and...
Growth-Induced Land Development Caused by Highway and Other Projects as an Indirect Effect Under NEPA
Growth-induced land development caused by highway and other projects must be considered as a...
Natural Resources
United States v. Donald L. Blankenship
The Fourth Circuit held that a district court committed no reversible error in a case where an...
Coalition of Concerned Citizens v. Federal Transit Authority
The Tenth Circuit affirmed a district court ruling denying business owners’ motion to...
Toxic Substances
Anderson v. McCarthy
A district court, on motions for summary judgment, dismissed a lawsuit against EPA filed by a...
Syngenta Seeds, Inc. v. County of Kauai
The Ninth Circuit affirmed a lower court decision that the Hawaii Pesticides Law impliedly...
Waste
Charter Township of Lansing v. Lansing Board of Water and Light
A district court denied a state water and power board's motion to dismiss a CERCLA suit brought...
Qinault Indian Nation v. Imperium Terminal Services, LLC
The Washington Supreme Court held that the state's Ocean Resources Management Act (ORMA) applies...
Water
EQT Production Co. v. Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
A Pennsylvania court held that the state Clean Stream Law does not authorize ongoing penalties...
Catskill Mountains Chapter of Trout Unlimited v. EPA
The Second Circuit overturned a district court ruling that a 2008 EPA rule exempting water...
Wildlife
The Bear Essentials: How Landscape-Level Conservation May Help Save Florida’s Biodiversity and Realize the Vision of the National Wildlife Refuge System Improvement Act
The express mission of the National Wildlife Refuge System “is to administer a national network...
Wild Fish Conservancy v. Irving
A district court denied in part and granted in part motions for summary judgment in a suit...