Ecological Rights Foundation Mateel Environmental Justice Foundation v. Pacific Lumber Company

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• discussing that aesthetic and recreational use varies from person-to-person and rejecting a “mechanistic” approach to environmental injury
• finding that “the Clean Water Act allows citizen suits based on violations of any conditions of an NPDES permit, even those which are purely procedural”
• finding that “the Clean Water Act allows citizen suits based on violations of any conditions of an NPDES permit, even those which are purely procedural”
• observing that plaintiffs who “failed to show any tangible, continuing connection to any particular location affected by the challenged decision” have been found to lack standing
• explaining that an individual can establish injury in fact in the context of environmental cases by showing a sufficient level of \connection to the area of concern\ like \daily geographical proximity\
• holding organization had standing to sue 18 where members “use[d] the affected area and are persons for whom the aesthetic and 19 recreational values of the area will be lessened by the challenged activity”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).