A year ago, we reported that Judge Ricardo M. Urbina of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. had dismissed a lawsuit brought by two environmental groups against the Departments of Energy and Treasury, alleging that the departments had violated the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) and the Endangered Species Act (ESA) by [...]

The Sierra Club, represented by Earthjustice, has recently renewed its efforts to block the controversial expansion of the Holcomb coal-fired power plant in southeastern Kansas, this time by seeking a preliminary injunction against the U.S. Rural Utilities Services (RUS), which is helping to finance the project.
This motion for a preliminary injunction is the latest action [...]

Friends of the Earth (FOE) reports this morning that Obama administration has settled a seven-year-old lawsuit filed against two federal agencies that are responsible for financing and insuring overseas development projects.  The plaintiffs FOE, Greenpeace, and several U.S. cities, accused the agencies of violating the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) by chronically failing to consider [...]

Yesterday, Judge Ricardo Urbina of the D.C. District Court dismissed a complaint brought by environmental organizations against the Departments of Energy (DOE) and Treasury (DOT), in which the plaintiffs claimed the government violated the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) by issuing federal tax credits for “clean” coal plants without fully assessing the environmental impacts, including [...]