November 26, 2024
A D.C. federal judge has denied a bid by the state of Utah and two farming groups to lift a more than three-year stay in a challenge to the Bears Ears National Monument, saying that pending independent proceedings weigh upon the case and that there's no evidence of a demonstrated hardship.
July 08, 2020
The second half of 2020 could bring decisions in a host of important environmental law cases, including a series of challenges to the Trump administration's new rule defining the scope of the Clean Water Act, lawsuits targeting the president's efforts to roll back Obama-era national monuments, and a groundbreaking trial over whether the government should ban fluoride in drinking water.
June 10, 2020
The state of Utah, farming organizations and others have asked a D.C. federal judge to find that President Donald Trump had the authority to shrink the size of two Utah national monuments.
May 26, 2020
The Trump administration has urged a D.C. federal judge to grant its motions for summary judgment fighting back against Native American tribes' and environmental groups' claims that the president didn't have the authority to scale back the size of two Utah national monuments.
April 13, 2020
A group of tribes and a coalition of environmental organizations have urged a D.C. federal court to reject President Donald Trump's bid for an early win in suits challenging his reduction of two Utah national monuments.
March 06, 2020
The state of Utah, farming groups and others have backed President Donald Trump's authority to downsize two Utah national monuments, telling a D.C. federal court that the tribal and environmental groups challenging the cuts are trying to turn the monuments into "de facto national parks."
January 10, 2020
Tribal and environmental groups have asked a D.C. federal court to find that President Donald Trump had no constitutional or statutory authority to shrink two Utah national monuments.
October 01, 2019
A Washington, D.C., federal judge has denied the Trump administration's efforts to sink two lawsuits challenging the president's decision to shrink two national monuments, but she left the door open for the government to try again.
July 19, 2019
Here, Law360 takes a look at some of the biggest environmental cases to watch in the second half of 2019, including U.S. Supreme Court appeals based on Superfund and Clean Water Act issues and a challenge to President Donald Trump's authority to shrink national monuments designed by his predecessor.
April 18, 2019
The federal government continued to argue that the Antiquities Act gives President Trump the power to reduce the size of two national monuments, pushing back in D.C. federal court against opposition raised by amici in support of the tribes and environmental groups challenging the presidential proclamation.