Report: National Environmental Law Center
Summer 2007
Offices in Boston, Seattle and San Francisco
Vol. 12, No. 3
Recent Litigation At A Glance

MichiganMICHIGAN
Cross motions for summary judgement were argued in NELC’s case to compel the Army Corps of Engineers to prepare an environmental impact statement for dredging and disposing of dioxin-contaminated sediments from the Upper Saginaw River, 4/07.

LouisianaLOUISIANA
NELC attorneys filed opening briefs in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. District Court in New York challenging EPA’s decision not to regulate cooling water intake structures at manufacturing facilities, 3/07.

OhioOHIO
NELC attorneys filed a brief in the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in a challenge to EPA’s regulation exempting certain aquatic pesticides from Clean Water Act permitting requirements, 4/07.

OregonOREGON
Consent decree entered as order of the court in NELC’s Clean Water Act case against Pacific Seafood Group, 3/07.

PennsylvaniaPENNSYLVANIA
NELC attorneys filed suit against Reliant Energy to enforce the Clean Water Act and the Pennsylvania Clean Streams Law for discharges of heavy metals into the Conemaugh River, 4/07.

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National Environmental Law Center Report is the report of the National Environmental Law Center, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research and litigation organization working to stop polluters through legal action and pollution prevention policies.

Director of Litigation:
Charles C. Caldart

Litigation Staff:
Adia Bey
Theresa Labriola
Joshua Kratka
Joseph Mann
Stephanie Matheny

 

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