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Ohio Environmental Council v. U.S. Forest Service

Geography
🇺🇸 United States / Ohio
Year
2021
Document Type
Litigation
Part of
Ohio Environmental Council v. U.S. Forest Service

About this case

Filing year
2021
Status
Plaintiff's motion for summary judgment granted in part and denied in part and defendants' motion for summary judgment granted in part and denied in part.
Geography
🇺🇸 United States → Ohio
Docket number
2:21-cv-04380
Court/admin entity
United States → United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio (S.D. Ohio)United States → United States Federal Courts
Case category
Federal Statutory Claims (US) → NEPA (US)Federal Statutory Claims (US) → Other Statutes and Regulations (US)
Principal law
United States → Administrative Procedure Act (APA)United States → National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)United States → National Forest Management Act (NFMA)
At issue
Challenge to project authorizing 2,485 acres of timber harvest in Wayne National Forest in southeast Ohio.
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Documents

Filing Date
Document
Type
Topics 
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03/30/2023
Plaintiff's motion for summary judgment granted in part and denied in part and defendants' motion for summary judgment granted in part and denied in part.
An Ohio federal court briefly mentioned climate change in its decision on National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and National Forest Management Act (NFMA) claims challenging a project that authorized 2,485 acres of timber harvest in Wayne National Forest in southeast Ohio. The court found that the U.S. Forest Service responded adequately to issues the plaintiff raised about the project’s impact on fungal networks and their role in “carbon storage and sequestration … and [] forest health and resiliency in the face of climate change.” The court ruled for the plaintiff on other aspects of its NEPA claim but denied the plaintiff’s NFMA claim.
Decision
09/09/2021
Complaint filed.
Complaint

Summary

Challenge to project authorizing 2,485 acres of timber harvest in Wayne National Forest in southeast Ohio.

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Group
Topics
Risk
Impacted group
Just transition
Fossil fuel
Greenhouse gas
Economic sector
Adaptation/resilience
Finance