BLUE OCEAN PRESERVATION SOC. v. WATKINS

Civ. No. 90-00407 DAE.

754 F.Supp. 1450 (1991)

BLUE OCEAN PRESERVATION SOCIETY, a Hawaii non-profit corporation; Sierra Club, a California non-profit corporation; and Greenpeace Foundation, a Hawaii non-profit corporation, Plaintiffs, v. James D. WATKINS, Secretary Department of Energy, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Hawaii.

January 8, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul Spaulding, III and Arnold Lum, Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, Inc., Honolulu, Hawaii, for plaintiffs.

Daniel A. Bent, U.S. Atty., Linda J. Joachim, Asst. U.S. Atty., Honolulu, Hawaii, and Gary B. Randall, Atty., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for defendants.


ORDER DENYING DEFENDANT UNITED STATES' MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT AND GRANTING PLAINTIFFS' MOTION FOR PARTIAL SUMMARY JUDGMENT

DAVID A. EZRA, District Judge.

I. Introduction

This is an action brought by three environmental groups ("Plaintiffs") seeking to compel the federal government to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement ("EIS") covering the development of geothermal energy on the Island of Hawaii (the "Big Island") before proceeding further...

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