Weeks–McLean Act

The Weeks–McLean Act was a law of the United States sponsored by Representative John W. Weeks (R) of Massachusetts and Senator George P. McLean (R) of Connecticut that prohibited the spring hunting and marketing of migratory birds and the importation of wild bird feathers for women's fashion, ending what was called "millinery murder". It gave the Secretary of Agriculture the power to set hunting seasons nationwide, making it the first U.S. law ever passed to regulate the shooting of migratory birds. It became effective on 4 March 1913 but, because of a constitutional weakness, was later replaced by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918.^[1]

Henry Ford supported the legislation, "The only time I ever used the Ford organization to influence legislation was on behalf of the birds, and I think the end justified the means."^[2]

References

^ A Guide to the Laws and Treaties of the United States for Protecting Migratory Birds Accessed 15 November 2008
^ Ford, Henry (2019). My Life and Work. Columbia. p. 115. ISBN 9781545549117.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

United States environmental law

Supreme Court
decisions

Missouri v. Holland (1920)
Sierra Club v. Morton (1972)
Vermont Yankee v. NRDC (1978)
Hughes v. Oklahoma (1979)
Lujan v. National Wildlife Federation (1990)
Friends of the Earth v. Laidlaw Environmental Services (2000)
BP P.L.C. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore (2021)

NEPA cases	United States v. SCRAP (1973) Metropolitan Edison Co. v. People Against Nuclear Energy (1983) Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. v. Natural Resources Defense Council (1983) Department of Transportation v. Public Citizen (2004) Norton v. Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (2004) Winter v. Natural Resources Defense Council (2008) Monsanto Co. v. Geertson Seed Farms (2010)
CAA cases	Train v. Natural Resources Defense Council (1975) Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council (1984) Whitman v. American Trucking Associations (2001) Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation v. EPA (2004) Department of Transportation v. Public Citizen (2004) Massachusetts v. EPA (2007) Environmental Defense v. Duke Energy Corp. (2007) American Electric Power Co. v. Connecticut (2011) Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA (2014) Michigan v. EPA (2015) HollyFrontier Cheyenne Refining v. Renewable Fuels Association (2021) West Virginia v. EPA (2022)
RCRA cases	City of Philadelphia v. New Jersey (1978) Southern Union Co. v. United States (2012)
ESA cases	Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill (1978) Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife (1992) Babbitt v. Sweet Home Chapter of Communities for a Great Oregon (1995) National Association of Home Builders v. Defenders of Wildlife (2007) Weyerhaeuser Company v. United States Fish and Wildlife Service (2018) United States Fish and Wildlife Service v. Sierra Club (2021)
CWA cases	United States v. Riverside Bayview (1985) SWANCC v. Army Corps of Engineers (2001) South Florida Water Management District v. Miccosukee Tribe (2004) S. D. Warren Co. v. Maine Board of Environmental Protection (2006) Rapanos v. United States (2006) National Association of Home Builders v. Defenders of Wildlife (2007) Entergy Corp. v. Riverkeeper Inc. (2009) Coeur Alaska, Inc. v. Southeast Alaska Conservation Council (2009) Sackett v. EPA I (2012) Los Angeles County Flood Control District v. Natural Resources Defense Council (2013) Army Corps of Engineers v. Hawkes Co. (2016) National Association of Manufacturers v. Department of Defense (2018) County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund (2020) Sackett v. EPA II (2023)
CERCLA cases	United States v. Bestfoods (1998) Guam v. United States (2021)