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Committee approves memorial urging Congress to tighten Equal Access to Justice Act for environmental cases
Summary
House Joint Memorial 6, advanced by the Resource and Conservation Committee, asks Congress to reconsider how the Equal Access to Justice Act applies to environmental and natural-resource litigation; supporters said current practice encourages litigation that halts projects, while opponents were not recorded during testimony.
House Joint Memorial 6, sponsored by Representative Mark Souder, asks Congress to reevaluate the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA) as it applies to environmental and natural-resource cases.
Souder told the committee the EAJA was intended to allow prevailing plaintiffs to collect legal fees against the federal government in certain circumstances, but he argued a 1989…
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