National Park Service v. National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States · ¶12

To be sure, and as the Trust observes, we have found standing in certain environmental cases where the plaintiff ’s injuries involved more than mere offense. See Opposition to Application 25; post, at 3–6 (ROBERTS, C. J., dissenting). So, for example, in Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services (TOC), Inc., 528 U. S. 167 (2000), we found standing where the plaintiffs alleged that “harmful pollutants” the defendant discharged into a river forced them to abandon “fish[ing], camp[ing], swim[ming], and picnic[king] in and near the river” as they had in the past. Id., at 181–183. And in Summers v. Earth Island In stitute, 555 U. S. 488 (2009), we noted the government’s concession that one member of the plaintiff organization previously had standing to sue for injuries to his “recreational interests” in a national forest before ultimately denying standing because a partial…

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