Case Summary Issue: Whether the Forest Service should be allowed to conduct timber thinning operations consistent with good forestry management practices? Plaintiff: Elbram Stone Company, LLC Defendant: U.S. Forest Service,…
Case Summary Issue: Whether a federal district court may cancel federal oil and gas leases absent proof of irreparable injury? Plaintiff: Center for Biological Diversity and Sierra Club Defendants: The…
Case Summary Issue: Whether an entity with purely economic interests that is affected adversely by agency action decision may challenge the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) document upon which the…
Case Summary Issue: Whether the U.S. Forest Service’s mere receipt and review of a hardrock miner’s notice of intent to exercise rights granted to him by Congress in the Mining…
Case Summary Issue: Whether the Secretary of the Interior may withdraw over 1,000,000 acres of public lands from entry and location under the General Mining Law without fully and correctly…
Case Summary Issue: Whether the U.S. Forest Service violated the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) by relying on a categorical exclusion established by Congress in reauthorizing grazing permits on land…
Case Summary Issue: Whether an environmental group can prevent the use of federal lands in six States because of purported impacts to greater sage-grouse habitat? Plaintiff: Western Watersheds Project (WWP)…
Case Summary Issue: Whether individuals have standing to seek—by applying the public trust doctrine to the atmosphere—judicially fashioned emissions caps on carbon emissions because those emissions allegedly contribute to harms…
Case Summary Issue: Whether federal land management agencies may, by regulation, establish a scheme that results in the automatic forfeiture of valuable property rights? Plaintiff: Donald, Judith and Christopher Mullikin…
Case Summary Issue: Whether public forest roads upon which logging trucks travel need a federal Clean Water Act (CWA) permit for the stormwater runoff that enters a culvert and is…