Case Summary Issue: Whether Montana may set water quality standards that unduly burden coal-bed methane production by requiring that produced water be purer than necessary to protect existing beneficial uses…
Case Summary Issue: Whether Montana complied with all State environmental laws and policies when it approved new well drilling permit applications? Plaintiff: Montana Wildlife Federation; National Wildlife Federation Defendant: Montana…
Case Summary Issue: Whether, and, if so to what extent, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) must consider, analyze, and/or mitigate the global warming impacts of so-called greenhouse gases when…
Case Summary Issue: Whether the Forest Service should be allowed to conduct timber-thinning operations consistent with good forestry management practices to prevent future forest fires? Plaintiff: Sharon J. Hapner; Alliance…
Case Summary Issue: Whether the Environmental Protection Agency may transfer to the State of Arizona authority to issue Clean Water Act permits without imposing conditions to ensure protection of federally…
Case Summary Issue: Whether the Corps and the EPA reasonably concluded that the Section 404 program should govern material placed in waters of the United States where the material has…
Case Summary Issue: Whether environmental groups that claim no interest in property may intervene in Quiet Title Act litigation filed by San Juan County to determine whether it has an…
Case Summary Issue: Whether the Clean Water Act authorizes federal jurisdiction over isolated wetlands, on privately owned land, that do not abut a body of open water but lie approximately…
Case Summary Issue: Whether the Forest Service was substantially justified in pursuing MCRRA (Mining Claims Rights Restoration Act)? Plaintiff: Donald E. Eno Defendant: Kenneth L. Salazar, Secretary, U.S. Department of…