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The Supreme Court appears likely to weaken one of the nation’s bedrock environmental laws, after justices heard a key case on Tuesday. During oral arguments, several of the court’s ...
AB 779 was inspired by a fight in Southern California’s Cuyama Valley between small farmers and the nation’s largest carrot grower
He told the court the environmental review in this case produced 3,600 pages' worth of reports. Congress recently adopted an amendment that said these impact statements should be limited to 150 pages.
These state and federal systems are foliated with layer upon layer of administrative regulation. Meanwhile, the US judicial system reviews not only the legislative enactments, but also the administrative decisions of the many agencies dealing with environmental issues. Where the statutes and regulations end, the common law begins.
Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency, 598 U.S. 651 (2023), also known as Sackett II (to distinguish it from the 2012 case), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that only wetlands and permanent bodies of water with a "continuous surface connection" to "traditional interstate navigable waters" are covered by the Clean Water Act.
On this page, environmental lawsuit means "a lawsuit where the well-being of an environmental asset or the well-being of a set of environmental assets is in dispute". Also on this page, lawsuit with environmental relevance means "a lawsuit where a non-environmental entity or a set of non-environmental entities is in dispute, but whose outcome has relevance for an environmental asset or for a ...
At issue is the National Environmental Policy Act, a 54-year-old law that protects air, water and land by requiring federal agencies to conduct detailed environmental assessments of major ...
The U.S. Department of Justice argued that there was "no constitutional right to a pollution-free environment", and that the court system was not the proper venue to effect such changes. [17] Coffin ruled in April 2016 recommending that both motions to dismiss were denied; Coffin found that while the case was "unprecedented", it had sufficient ...