National Wildlife Federation v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the City of Fort Smith, Arkansas, Intervenor

How courts have described this case

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• stating that “an EIS need not delve into the possible effects of a hypothetical project, but need only focus on the impact of the particular proposal at issue and other pending or recently approved proposals that might be connected to ... the proposal at issue”
• applying substantial evidence test to FERC rejection of a section 10(j) recommendation
• applying substantial evidence test to FERC rejection of a section 10(j) recommendation
• rejecting challenge to agency’s reliance on data provided by an engineering firm with a purported conflict of interest, where the plaintiff “merely speculated” that the data was unreliable “due to the interests of the proponents of the evidence”
• “[FERC’s] actions are not subject to the effective veto of every state or federal ... agency_”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).