May2016
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Between A Dentist, His Front Yard, and the TVA?
On Tuesday, United States District Judge Kevin H. Sharp, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, ordered, well, the unthinkable. The judge granted a temporary restraining order—akin to a preliminary injunction—against the Tennessee Valley...May 26, 2016 671 0 -
NEPA, Breaching Dams, and the Injunction Standard in Federal Court
A first post described the NEPA violation Judge Simon found last week: the failure to prepare an EIS for the adoption of the 2014 BiOp along with its 73 “reasonable and prudent alternatives.” This post raises...May 9, 2016 428 0 -
Of Bootstraps and Bar Graphs: Will NEPA Finally Do What the Endangered Species Act Couldn’t for Salmon?
Pick your Western metaphor and you can probably fit dams and fish on the great Columbia and Snake rivers into it somehow. The Federal Columbia River Power System (FCRPS) is an engineering marvel. But it has...May 8, 2016 451 0
