Aqualliance v. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AQUALLIANCE, Plaintiff, v. Case No. 17-cv-02108 (CRC) NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERERIC ADMINISTRATION, Defendant. MEMORANDUM OPINION Plaintiff AquAlliance submitted a Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) request to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (“NOAA”) for records related to pollution caused by the failure of California’s Oroville Dam in 2017. After some six weeks passed with no response from NOAA, AquAlliance filed suit. In response, NOAA produced over 3000 unredacted and partially redacted documents and…