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In support of motion for temporary restraining order.

Pursuant to Local Rule 65.1(a), plaintiff Standing Rock Sioux Tribe respectfully moves for a temporary restraining order against defendant-intervenor Dakota Access Pipeline, LLC to prevent further destruction of sacred and culturally significant sites near Lake Oahe, North Dakota, prior to this Court ruling on the Tribe’s motion for a preliminary injunction, which the Court previously indicated is anticipated this week.

A coalition of national and regional groups across the country is suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failing to update standards that protect families against neurotoxic lead-based paint and lead dust. The “unreasonable delay” lawsuit, filed in U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, argues that seven years after EPA granted a 2009 petition to update these standards, EPA has yet to propose—much less finalize—any new standards.

A coalition of national and regional groups across the country is suing the United States Environmental Protection Agency for failing to update standards that protect families against neurotoxic lead-based paint and lead dust.

On behalf of the Gas Free Seneca Business Coalition

Re: Finger Lakes LPG Storage, LLC, Application No. 8‐4432‐00085

The United States Army Corps of Engineers (“Corps” or “Army Corps”) has unlawfully approved a massive dredging project for Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The Corps’ environmental analysis for this project is based on the same assumptions and information it used to authorize a nearly identical dredging project to expand the Port of Miami (“PortMiami”), just 30 miles south.

Federal court rejects a claim by Elko County Nevada that it owns a road, commonly known as the South Canyon Road, at the edge of the Jarbidge Wilderness within the federally managed Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest.

The Department will issue a permit only if the Department makes all of the following three determinations: The project described in the application: (1) has independent utility; (2) is consistent with the protection, conservation and best use of the water resources of this state as specified in ORS 196.600 to 196.905; and (3) would not unreasonably interfere with the paramount policy of this state to preserve the use of its waters for navigation, fishing and public recreation. The permit applicant has the burden of proof for all three determinations.

This is an action for declaratory judgment and injunctive relief against the United States Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) and the United States Department of Interior for their final Records of Decision1 for the Resource Management Plans for Western Oregon, issued on August 5, 2016, revising the previous Resource Management Plans (“RMPs”) of the Western Oregon BLM Districts of Salem, Eugene, Roseburg, Coos Bay, and Medford, and the Klamath Falls Resource Area of the Lakeview District (the “RMP Revisions”), and the associated final Environmental Impact Statement (“FEIS”)

Complaint Under Sections 26 and 27 of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, 7 U.S.C. § 136w-2, and 40 C.F.R. Part 173

Pursuant to LCvR 65.1, Plaintiff Standing Rock Sioux Tribe hereby respectfully moves this Court to preliminarily enjoin the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to withdraw Nationwide Permit 12 as applied to the Dakota Access Pipeline, and to withdraw verifications issued on July 25, 2016 for the Dakota Access Pipeline to discharge in federally regulated waters at 204 sites along the pipeline route.

Citizens for Clean Air, Alaska Community Action on Toxics, and the Sierra Club have sent a notice of intent to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for missing a third deadline in two years for addressing Fairbanks’s air pollution problem.

U.S. District Court Judge Barbara Rothstein found EPA in violation of the Clean Water Act for failing to meet deadlines aimed at protecting human health in Washington from water pollution.

The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) issues this guidance to assist Federal agencies in their consideration of the effects of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions1 and climate change when evaluating proposed Federal actions in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the CEQ Regulations Implementing the Procedural Provisions of NEPA (CEQ Regulations).

By this Complaint, Plaintiffs seek to compel Defendants to comply with the national Environmental policy Act ("NEPA") in connection with the Navy's decision to station permanently thousands of U.S. Marines on the island of Guam to conduct live fire training for those Marines on the islands of Tinian and Pågan in the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands.

This is a complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe brings this action in connection with federal actions relating to the Dakota Access Pipeline, a 1,168-mile-long crude oil pipeline running from North Dakota to Illinois.

In light of documented threats to health, water supplies, property, and the environment in the event that a release of fracking chemicals occurs, there is widespread demand for chemical information among members of the public.