PUERTO RICO CONSERVATION FOUNDATION v. LARSON

Civ. No. 91-2378 GG.

797 F.Supp. 1066 (1992)

PUERTO RICO CONSERVATION FOUNDATION, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Thomas D. LARSON, etc., et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Puerto Rico.

February 27, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Armando Cardona, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, Steven S. Rosenthal, Ellen E. Deason, Linda F. Calhoun, Morrison & Foerster, Washington, D.C., Nathaniel S.W. Lawrence, Natural Resources Defense Council, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiffs.

Silvia Sepulveda-Hambor, U.S. Dept. of Justice, General Litigation Section, Environment and Natural Resources Div., Washington, D.C., Ivonne Gonzales Morales, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, Maria-Hortensia Rios, Asst. U.S. Atty., D. Puerto Rico, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, John Ebersole, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Office of Gen. Counsel, Atlanta, Ga., Irwin Schroeder, Regional Counsel, Federal Highway Admin., Albany, N.Y., Julia L. Perry, Regional Counsel, Eastern Federal Lands Highway Div., Federal Highway Admin., Sterling, Va., Frank D. Inserni, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, for defendants.


OPINION AND ORDER

GIERBOLINI, Chief Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

With every passing day on this planet, life becomes more perilous due to the reckless and sometimes illegal acts of individuals, agencies, corporations and even nations which fail to realize the importance of the environment to the present and future generations. It is thus not by happenstance that plaintiffs, a coalition of numerous environmental organizations, challenge the decision by...

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