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In 2012, Oregon-based Scott Timber Co. purchased a contract from the federal Bureau of Land Management to harvest 187 acres of a western Oregon forest designated for timber harvesting. As part of the sale, the Bureau prepared an environmental assessment and a "Finding of No Significant Impact" pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA ...

Last month, the Ninth Circuit declared invalid a settlement between environmental groups and federal agencies that would have altered regulatory requirements without going through the formal, and public, rule-making process. This is one of the few cases where a court has intervened to prevent the widely-reported "sue and settle" phenomenon. Accordi ...