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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

Wild Fish Conservancy v. Irving

A district court denied in part and granted in part motions for summary judgment in a suit...