11 results for 'cat:"Environment" AND cat:"Public Record"'.
J. Bahr finds that the district court properly dismissed a complaint requesting the district court order a company to provide an investor with certain information after the company solicited bids for a project that involved drilling two groundwater monitoring wells as part of a carbon dioxide capture project. The lower court properly entered attorney fees in favor of the company. Affirmed.
Court: North Dakota Supreme Court, Judge: Bahr , Filed On: March 7, 2024, Case #: 2024ND44, Categories: environment, public Record
J. Howell denies, in part, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's motion for summary judgment on a nonprofit's Freedom of Information Act case seeking certain FERC commissioners' calendars and phone records. The name of a lobbyist who had lunch with a chairman on a certain date must be released, as the agency concedes it "'should definitely not have [been] withheld.'"
Court: USDC District of Columbia, Judge: Howell, Filed On: February 12, 2024, Case #: 1:22cv3420, NOS: Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) - Other Suits, Categories: Energy, environment, public Record
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J. Gould vacates a Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) denial of a petition for discretionary review of a plan to construct 72 wind turbines to generate renewable energy in Southern California. The FAA’s rejection of the organization's petition for discretionary review for the sole reason that the organization did not comment on the aeronautical study of the project was arbitrary.
Court: 9th Circuit, Judge: Gould, Filed On: August 15, 2023, Case #: 21-71426, Categories: environment, public Record
J. Cobb denies in part the US Army Corps of Engineers' motion for summary judgment regarding an environmental group's allegations that it failed to adequately respond to four FOIA requests. The dispute relates to the "operation and maintenance of two dams on the Yuba River and the impact of those dams on several fish species that are protected by the Endangered Species Act." The Corps failed to articulate what harm it might suffer from disclosing the records it withheld. The Corps are ordered to produce those materials.
Court: USDC District of Columbia, Judge: Cobb, Filed On: June 21, 2023, Case #: 1:16cv2327, NOS: Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) - Other Suits, Categories: environment, public Record