· 12/9/1991
Sierra Club v. Watkins
Citations
- 808 F. Supp. 852
- 23 Envtl. L. Rep. (Envtl. Law Inst.) 20728
- 34 ERC (BNA) 2057
- 1991 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 17482
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- stating that “NEPA does not require a federal agency to consider and discuss every viewpoint in the scientific community on a given matter[,]” and noting that when specialists disagree, agencies “have discretion to rely on the reasonable opinions of its own qualified experts”
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Judges: Lamberth
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