ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS
California Governor Signs Executive Order Establishing Aggressive New Target for Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions179
PENALTIES AND SANCTIONS
Recent Investigations, Settlements, Penalties and Sanctions181
RECENT FEDERAL DECISIONS
Circuit Court of Appeals:
D.C. Circuit Confirms Requirements for Challenges to EPA Promulgated Greenhouse Gas Regulations185
Delta Construction Co. v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, ___F.3d___, Case No. 11-1428 (D.C. Cir. Apr. 24, 2015).
Ninth Circuit Ends Two Decades of Litigation over the Pesticide Element of California’s State Implementation Plan under the Federal Clean Air Act187
El Comite para el Bienestar de Earlimart v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, ___F.3d___, Case No. 12-74184 (9th Cir. May 8, 2015).
Fifth Circuit Holds EPA’s Refusal to Make Determination to Control Nitrogen and Phosphorous in the Mississippi River Basin Lacked Adequate Explana-
tion189
Gulf Restoration Network v. Gina McCarthy, ___F.3d___, Case No. 13-31214 (5th Cir. Apr. 7, 2015).
Clean Water Act Jurisdictional Determination of the Corps of Engineers Can Be Challenged in Court, Says the Eighth Circuit191
Hawkes Co., Inc. v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, ___F.3d___, Case No. 13607 (8th Cir. Apr. 15, 2015).
Federal Circuit Rejects Hopi Tribe’s Claim that the United States Must Provide Safe Drinking Water on the Reservation. . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Hopi Tribe v. U.S., ___F.3d___, Case No. 2014:5018 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 2, 2015).
Ninth Circuit Widens Circuit Split on the Scope of the Class Action Fairness Act’s Local Single Event Excep-
tion195
Jocelyn Allen, et al. v. The Boeing Company, et al, ___F.3d___, Case No. 15-35162 (9th Cir. Apr. 27, 2015).
D.C. Circuit Finds EPA Administrator’s Discretionary Endangerment Findings Trigger Duties to Regulate Air Pollutants and Stationary Sources under the CAA. .197
Samuel Zook, et al. v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Gina McCarthy, ___F.3d___, Case No. 14-5187 (D.C. Cir. Apr. 24, 2015).
Second Circuit Denies Property Owners Affirmative Defense In CERCLA Case and Orders the Payment of $6.7 Million because They Failed to Show Due
Care199
State of New York v. Adamowicz, ___F.3d___, Case No. 14-1702-cv (2nd Cir. Apr. 23, 2015).
District Court:
District Court Finds NPDES Permit Does Not Require Compliance with State’s Water Quality Standards for Color, Odor, and Turbidity201
Altamaha Riverkeeper, Inc. v. Rayonier, Inc., ___F.Supp.3d___, Case No. CV 214-44 (S.D. Ga. 2015).
District Court Defers to Virginia State Agency in Granting Summary Judgment to Coal Company in Clean Water Act Citizen Suit203
Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards v. Red River Coal Company, Inc., ___F.Supp.3d___, Case No. 2:14-CV-00024 (W.D. Va. Apr. 13, 2014).
RECENT STATE DECISIONS
Colorado Supreme Court Finds Modified Case Management Order Issued in Fracking Case Was Not Authorized by State Rules of Civil Procedure203
Antero Resources Corporation v. William G. Strudley, Case No. 13SC576, ___P.3d___ (Colo. Apr. 20, 2015).
