Members’ right to vote for directors of a nonprofit advocacy group is not required to give the group standing to bring a lawsuit alleging violations of state and federal environmental laws, a federal District Court in Pennsylvania has ruled. The Citizens Coal Council, a Pennsylvania nonprofit corporation, filed suit against a contracting company claiming that pollution emanating from its property was violating environmental protection laws. The contractor filed a motion to dismiss on the ground that the Council lacked standing to bring the case. Associational standing is a complex issue for which standards were set by a 1977 U.S. Supreme Court case ( Hunt v. Washington State Apple...