Supreme Court Refuses Three Environmental Cases

By Alan Kovski, Bloomberg BNA

Federal regulators preserved victories in two disputes when the U.S. Supreme Court refused Oct. 11 to review cases on protections for a West Coast fish species and approvals for work on a ski resort in a national forest. But at the same time, the U.S. Forest Service lost a chance to argue before the court against the prospect of citizen lawsuits forcing additional rounds of Endangered Species Act consultations over program policies.

Service Faces More Species Work

The Supreme Court let stand a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit that ...