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Ecojuris Institute, a Russian environmental law group, filed an action at the Supreme Court challenging the Russian government's arbitrary waiver of environmental law to allow Exxon to drill in the pristine marine ecology of the North Pacific and Sea of Okhotsk off the Russian Far East.

In a landmark victory, a federal court ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to clean up polluted lakes, streams and rivers throughout Florida.

Conservation groups sued the U.S. Forest Service because, in developing the new plan for Alaska's Tongass National Forest, the agency failed to consider permanent wilderness area protection for any portion of the millions of acres of undeveloped wild lands on the Tongass.

The Sea Turtle Survival League and the Save The Manatee Club instituted legal proceedings to have specific language in the law establishing the new Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission declared unconstitutional.

On July 29th the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver, Colorado will hear oral arguments regarding a longstanding dispute over the fate of wolf recovery in the Northern Rocky Mountains.

In a lawsuit filed against the US Trade Representative and the US Department of Commerce, environmental groups accuse US trade policy makers of giving exclusive access to the timber industry in trade advisory committees while marginalizing environmental groups.

The Hawai`i District Court ordered the Secretary of the Interior and Director of the US Fish and Wildlife Service to finalize a proposed rule to list ten Hawaiian plant taxa as endangered under the Endangered Species Act by August 31, 1999.

In a landmark decision, a federal court found that National Marine Fisheries Service's management of the giant North Pacific fisheries is illegal.

The Vallejo Sanitation District and San Francisco BayKeeper announced that they have reached a settlement of a three-year old Clean Water Act lawsuit.