resource-conservation-and-recovery-act

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
21-1500 Residents of Gordon Plaza, Inc. v. LaToya Cantrell, in Her Official Capacity as Mayor of the City of New Orleans, Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-05-31 Denied cercla citizen-suit comprehensive-environmental-response-compensation- consent-decree environmental-law epa-consent-decree operation-and-maintenance rcra removal-action resource-conservation-and-recovery-act The Fifth Circuit ruled that homeowners on a toxic landfill are precluded from suing under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act ("RCRA"), 42 U.S…
20-717 Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety, Inc. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-11-24 Denied Response Waived article-iii article-iii-standing clean-water-act environmental-protection-agency environmental-standing epa-permitting hazardous-waste procedural-standing resource-conservation-and-recovery-act resource-conservation-recovery-act standing 1. Does petitioner CCNS have Article III substantive standing to challenge the CWA permit? 2. Does petitioner CCNS have Article III procedural standi…
18-1564 LAJIM, LLC, et al. v. General Electric Company Seventh Circuit 2019-06-21 Denied citizen-suit consent-order environmental-law federal-court-discretion federalism imminent-and-substantial-endangerment injunctive-relief rcra-citizen-suit resource-conservation-and-recovery-act state-consent-order statutory-interpretation Petitioners are private attorneys general who brought a Congressionally authorized Citizen Suit against Respondent under the Resource Conservation and…
18-1307 Tennessee Clean Water Network, et al. v. Tennessee Valley Authority Sixth Circuit 2019-04-15 Dismissed clean-water-act epa groundwater navigable-waters permit-requirement permitting point-source pollutant-discharge pollution resource-conservation-and-recovery-act Absent authorization by permit, the Clean Water Act prohibits the "discharge of a pollutant," defined as "any addition of any pollutant to navigable w…