United States Ninth Circuit
People of the State of California v. US Department of the Interior, 12-15691
Summary judgment in favor of federal defendants and intervenor water districts in an action challenging an environmental impact statement prepared by the Secretary of the Interior that analyzed the effects of water transfer agreements on the Salton Sea in southern California, is affirmed, where: 1) plaintiffs Imperial County and the Imperial County Air Pollution Control District, had standing to sue; but 2) the district court correctly found in the alternative that the Secretary of the Interior did not violate the National Environmental Policy Act; and 3) the record below made plain that the Secretary did not violate the Clean Air Act. (Amended opinion)
Appellate Information
- Decided 08/01/2014
- Published 08/01/2014
Judges
- HURWITZ
Court
- United States Ninth Circuit