A district court granted BLM's motion to dismiss tribes' and environmental groups' challenge to the Bureau's approval of a 550-mile transmission line route through the San Pedro Valley.
The Fifth Circuit affirmed dismissal of a constitutional challenge brought by a pipeline company concerning a 1949 permit a local levee board granted to the company to construct and maintain two pipelines across a levee in Mayersville, Mississippi.
The June issue of ELR features articles on why sustainability needs antitrust; where we failed over the past 40 years in restoring the Chesapeake Bay and how to change course; 2023 developments in Chinese environmental law; and building food and nutrition security and sovereignty. The issue also includes a transcript from a recent webinar that discussed the coastal property insurance crisis and considered what policies and programs insurance providers and governments could adopt to best guide the insurance market toward desired national goals.
Supplemental environmental projects (SEPs) have received a growing amount of attention in recent years, from the Donald Trump Administration banning their use in settlements, to regulation and guidance from the Joseph Biden Administration reversing the ban, to legislative proposals prohibiting them altogether. This Article examines SEPs’ legality under existing law, focusing on claims that they violate the Miscellaneous Receipts Act and the Antideficiency Act.