Plaintiff environmental group is a “prevailing party” entitled to attorney’s fees under the Clean Water Act because their summary judgment award finding defendant violated the CWA by discharging selenium without a permit “advanced the goals” of the Act; the Big ...

Tagged with: Environmental Judge James P. Jones U.S. District Court - Western District

In these consolidated appeals from a multi-billion dollar judgment rendered in Ecuador against the Chevron corporation, which Chevron alleges was fraudulently obtained, the 4th Circuit upholds a district court order requiring two Maryland-based attorneys acting for the Ecuadorian plaintiffs to ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Environmental Judge G. Steven Agee

Plaintiff, a protection and advocacy group for eagles, may sue U.S. Department of Agriculture officials alleging a program to remove eagles from the Norfolk Botanical Garden violates federal environmental and wildlife protection laws, but the Norfolk U.S. District Court dismisses ...

Tagged with: Environmental Judge Henry Coke Morgan Jr. U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A Big Stone Gap U.S. District Court denies defendant coal mining company’s motion to dismiss this citizens’ suit alleging the company exceeded allowable pollutant discharges under its Clean Water Act discharge permits. In this citizens’ suit under the Clean Water ...

Tagged with: Environmental Judge James P. Jones U.S. District Court - Western District

Federal and state defendants planning to replace the Bonner Bridge between mainland North Carolina and the Outer Banks’ Hatteras Island did not violate the National Environmental Policy Act by seeking approval of only the bridge replacement and denying the public ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Environmental Judge James A. Wynn Jr.

In a West Virginia chicken farmer’s suit challenging the EPA’s enforcement action against her for polluted runoff, the 4th Circuit affirms a district court order refusing to allow the Chesapeake Bay Foundation to intervene as a defendant; CBF admits it ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Environmental Judge William B. Traxler Jr.

A & G Coal Corporation may not assert a “permit shield” defense for discharges of selenium as it failed to disclose the presence or absence of this pollutant during the application process for a permit under the National Pollutant Discharge ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Environmental Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III

As the number of Northern Virginia farm wineries grows, so do the skirmishes over the size and scope of vineyard operations. The typical battle involves neighbors who say the wine businesses have broken rules designed to limit commercial activity in ...

Tagged with: Environmental Judge Burke McCahill Loudoun County Circuit Court

States and business groups challenging controversial Environmental Protection Agency regulations aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions won a battle, but largely lost the war, after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling left the agency’s regulatory scheme largely intact. “The court’s holding ...

Tagged with: Environmental U.S. Supreme Court

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court recently held that preemption language in the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act aimed at overriding state statutes of limitation does not extend to statutes of repose. But attorneys say that while the ...

Tagged with: Environmental Supreme Court of Virginia