Sierra Club v. James M. Sigler, Etc., Pelican Terminal Company and Galveston Wharves, Intervenors-Appellees

How courts have described this case

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• “that the possibility of a total cargo loss by a supertanker is remote does not obviate the requirement of a worst case analysis”
• the policy of NEPA is “to ensure that those agencies consider the environmental effects of their actions during their decisionmaking process.”
• “Uncertainty as to environmental consequences need not bar action as long as the uncertainty is forthrightly considered in the decisionmaking process and disclosed in the EIS.”
• agency may not rubberstamp a consultant-prepared EIS

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).