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25A757 Peter Williams v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2025-12-31 Application None Question not identified.
25A748 RMS of Georgia, LLC, dba Choice Refrigerants v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2025-12-29 Application administrative-discretion agency-rulemaking hydrofluorocarbons legislative-power nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers Question not identified.
25-668 Jeffrey Andrews v. United States Second Circuit 2025-12-09 Pending clean-water-act environmental-enforcement epa-authority sackett-decision surface-water-connection wetlands-regulation Petitioner Jeffrey Andrews resides on his family farm in Connecticut. His farm contains a short reach of an unnamed tributary to the Farm River, but n…
25-579 Department of the Air Force, et al. v. Prutehi Guahan Ninth Circuit 2025-11-17 Pending administrative-procedure-act agency-action cooperative-federalism environmental-review hazardous-waste resource-conservation-recovery-act 1. Whether the federal government's submission to a state or territorial regulator of an application to renew a RCRA permit is "final agency action" t…
25A374 Department of the Air Force, et al. v. Prutehi Guahan Ninth Circuit 2025-10-01 Presumed Complete agency-action environmental-impact nepa permit-renewal rcra standing Whether a federal agency's submission of a permit renewal application under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) requires a separate Nati…
25A337 Jeffrey Andrews v. United States Second Circuit 2025-09-24 Presumed Complete clean-water-act environmental-regulation permit-violation sackett-precedent waters-of-united-states wetlands Whether the Second Circuit's test for determining 'waters of the United States' under the Clean Water Act conflicts with the Supreme Court's interpret…
25-5596 Ardy Merritt v. Department of Housing and Urban Development, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-09-10 Rehearing constitutional-interpretation due-process fourth-amendment ninth-circuit-jurisdiction property-rights statutory-definition Does the U.S. Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit have the right to redefine words, disregard constitutional and state law statutes, and oversimplify felon…
24-961 Environmental Protection Agency, et al. v. Kentucky, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-03-06 Denied circuit-jurisdiction clean-air-act environmental-regulation epa-action judicial-review nationwide-scope Whether EPA's disapproval action is subject to review only in the D.C. Circuit under 42 U.S.C. 7607(b)(1), which channels to that court petitions to r…
24-719 Panoche Energy Center, LLC v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-10 Dismissed environmental-protection-agency monitoring-well permit-condition safe-drinking-water-act third-party-property underground-injection-control Does the Safe Drinking Water Act authorize EPA to compel UIC permittees to construct monitoring wells on third-party property that permittees lack rig…
24-531 James Shepherd, Trustee for the James B. Shepherd Trust, et al. v. Michael S. Regan, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-11-12 Denied article-iii-standing business-operations concrete-injury epa-orders property-interests third-party-standing Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in concluding that Appellants lacked Article III and Third-Party standing despite alleging concrete and particularized…
24A463 East Kentucky Power Cooperative, Inc. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-11-08 Presumed Complete administrative-overreach clean-air-act environmental-regulation epa-regulation greenhouse-gas statutory-interpretation Whether the Clean Air Act allows the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants in a manner that exceeds its statutory authority and i…
24A433 Panoche Energy Center, LLC v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-31 Presumed Complete administrative-law epa-permit monitoring-well property-rights statutory-interpretation underground-injection Whether the Environmental Protection Agency exceeded its statutory authority by imposing a monitoring condition on an underground injection control pe…
24-450 Ohio, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-10-22 Denied administrative-record agency-action chenery-doctrine clean-air-act judicial-review rulemaking-procedure Whether the Clean Air Act permits remand to the EPA to supplement the administrative record with new information and justifications after a rule is pr…
24A215 Continental Resources, Inc., et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-08-28 Presumed Complete administrative-law clean-air-act environmental-regulation epa-regulation methane-emissions oil-and-gas-industry Whether the EPA exceeded its statutory authority under the Clean Air Act in promulgating methane emissions regulations for the oil and gas industry
24A213 Oklahoma, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-08-27 Presumed Complete administrative-law clean-air-act environmental-authority epa-regulation regulatory-overreach state-sovereignty Whether the EPA exceeded its statutory authority under the Clean Air Act in promulgating regulations that impose substantial burdens on states' enviro…
24A203 National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-08-26 Presumed Complete administrative-law clean-air-act emissions-restrictions epa-regulations greenhouse-gas rural-electric-cooperatives Whether the Clean Air Act and EPA regulations exceed statutory authority by imposing greenhouse gas emissions restrictions that disproportionately bur…
24A199 America's Power, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-08-23 Presumed Complete administrative-law clean-air-act epa-regulation greenhouse-gas power-plant-emissions statutory-interpretation Whether the Clean Air Act allows the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants under the MATS rule without exceeding its statutory au…
24A197 Talen Montana, LLC, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-08-22 Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-authority clean-air-act epa-regulation greenhouse-gas power-plant-emissions Whether the Environmental Protection Agency exceeded its statutory authority under the Clean Air Act in promulgating greenhouse gas emissions regulati…
24A186 Midwest Ozone Group v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-08-21 Presumed Complete clean-air-act emissions-reduction epa-regulation federal-implementation-plan interstate-pollution ozone-transport Whether the Clean Air Act permits the EPA to regulate interstate ozone transport through a federal implementation plan that imposes emissions reductio…
24A180 North Dakota, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-08-19 Presumed Complete administrative-overreach agency-power clean-air-act environmental-regulation epa-regulation statutory-interpretation Whether the EPA exceeded its statutory authority under the Clean Air Act in promulgating regulations that substantially expand its regulatory power be…
24A179 Westmoreland Mining Holdings LLC, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-08-19 Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-authority clean-air-act environmental-regulation epa-regulation greenhouse-gas Whether the Clean Air Act permits the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants without explicit congressional authorizati…
24A178 NACCO Natural Resources Corporation v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-08-16 Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-discretion clean-air-act epa-regulation mercury-emissions statutory-interpretation Whether the Environmental Protection Agency's revised Mercury and Air Toxics Standards exceed its statutory authority under the Clean Air Act by imple…
24A117 Ohio, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-07-31 Presumed Complete administrative-action clean-air-act epa-regulation greenhouse-gas major-questions-doctrine statutory-interpretation Whether the Clean Air Act allows the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants in a manner that exceeds i…
24A116 Edison Electric Institute, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-07-31 Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-authority clean-air-act electric-power-industry epa-regulation greenhouse-gas Whether the Environmental Protection Agency exceeded its statutory authority in promulgating greenhouse gas emissions regulations that substantially i…
24A106 Electric Generators for a Sensible Transition v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-07-30 Presumed Complete administrative-overreach clean-air-act climate-change epa-regulation fossil-fuel major-questions-doctrine Whether the EPA exceeded its statutory authority under the Clean Air Act by promulgating a rule that substantially transforms the electricity generati…
24A105 Midwest Ozone Group v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-07-30 Presumed Complete administrative-overreach clean-air-act environmental-regulation epa-regulation greenhouse-gas power-generation Whether the EPA exceeded its statutory authority under the Clean Air Act in promulgating regulations that substantially impact power generation and gr…
24A95 West Virginia, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-07-26 Presumed Complete administrative-overreach clean-air-act environmental-policy epa-authority greenhouse-gas-emissions power-plant-regulation Whether the EPA exceeded its statutory authority under the Clean Air Act in promulgating greenhouse gas emissions regulations for power plants that su…
24A96 National Rural Electric Cooperative v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-07-26 Presumed Complete administrative-overreach agency-authority clean-air-act electric-power epa-regulation statutory-interpretation Whether the EPA exceeded its statutory authority under the Clean Air Act in promulgating regulations that substantially transform the electric power g…
24A97 National Mining Association and America's Power v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-07-26 Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-authority clean-air-act epa-regulations greenhouse-gas power-plant-emissions Whether the Clean Air Act and EPA regulations exceed the agency's statutory authority in regulating greenhouse gas emissions from power plants
24A98 Nacco Natural Resources Corporation v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-07-26 Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-action environmental-law epa-regulation natural-resources statutory-interpretation Whether the Environmental Protection Agency exceeded its statutory authority in issuing a final agency action that improperly regulates natural resour…
24-13 Ohio, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-07-09 Denied commerce-clause constitutional-structure environmental-regulation equal-sovereignty federal-government federalism sovereign-power state-equality state-power May Congress pass a law under the Commerce Clause that empowers one State to exercise sovereign power that the law denies to all other States?
24-7 Diamond Alternative Energy, LLC, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-07-08 Judgment Issued article-iii-standing california-waiver clean-air-act epa-waiver greenhouse-gas-emissions preemption standing zero-emission-vehicle Whether EPA's preemption waiver for California's greenhouse-gas emission standards and zero-emission vehicle mandate is unlawful
23-1372 Dave Wayne Erlanson, Sr. v. Environmental Protection Agency Ninth Circuit 2024-07-02 Denied 9th-amendment bill-of-rights cause-of-action civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process environmental-protection-agency federal-mining-claim ninth-amendment section-1983 Can 42 U.S.C. § 1983 be considered a tort-claim-action
23-1230 Growth Energy, et al. v. Calumet Shreveport Refining, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-05-22 GVR administrative-law centralized-review environmental-protection-agency epa-action nationwide-scope renewable-fuel-program small-refinery-exemption small-refinery-exemptions statutory-interpretation venue venue-statute Whether an EPA action is 'nationally applicable' or 'based on a determination of nationwide scope or effect' for venue under 42 U.S.C. §7607(b)(1)
23-1229 Environmental Protection Agency v. Calumet Shreveport Refining, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-05-22 Judgment Issued administrative-law circuit-court-review clean-air-act environmental-law epa-administrative-action jurisdiction renewable-fuel-standard statutory-interpretation venue venue-jurisdiction Whether venue for the refineries' challenges lies exclusively in the D.C. Circuit
23A903 Environmental Protection Agency v. Calumet Shreveport Refining, LLC, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-04-09 Presumed Complete clean-air-act epa-action judicial-review nationwide-scope small-refinery-exemption venue-provision Whether the Clean Air Act's venue provision requires judicial review of EPA small refinery exemption denials to be filed exclusively in the D.C. Circu…
23-1068 PacifiCorp, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-04-01 Judgment Issued administrative-law circuit-court-jurisdiction clean-air-act environmental-regulation epa-disapproval federal-jurisdiction judicial-review standing state-implementation-plan Whether the EPA's disapproval of a State Implementation Plan may only be challenged in the D.C. Circuit
23-1067 Oklahoma, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-04-01 Judgment Issued circuit-split clean-air-act d-c-circuit epa-action epa-authority federal-register judicial-review regional-circuit state-implementation-plan Whether a final action by EPA taken pursuant to its Clean Air Act authority with respect to a single state or region may be challenged only in the D.C…
23-1059 Peter Williams v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-03-27 Denied administrative-petition administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act clean-air-act due-process environmental-protection-agency epa-action petition-for-review standing statutory-interpretation timeliness Whether Williams could have petitioned for review using non-record rebuttal evidence within 60 days of EPA's initial action
23-967 Quentin Borges-Silva v. Michael S. Regan, in His Official Capacity as Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency District of Columbia 2024-03-06 Denied administrative-law civil-rights collateral-estoppel due-process eeoc-proceeding employment-discrimination employment-law federal-courts hostile-work-environment wrongful-termination Whether offensive collateral estoppel in a concurrent administrative proceeding is binding in a district court proceeding arising from the same cause …
23-949 In Re David Erlanson, Sr. 2024-02-29 Denied 9th-circuit administrative-law civil-procedure civil-proceeding civil-rights criminal-penalty criminal-procedure due-process judicial-duty judicial-process mandamus separation-of-powers Can the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals indefinitely prolong or avoid its judicial duty when a judicial process in the lower district court resulted obvi…
23-753 City and County of San Francisco, California v. Environmental Protection Agency Ninth Circuit 2024-01-12 Judgment Issued clean-water-act discharge-limitations enforcement environmental-protection-agency environmental-regulation national-pollutant-discharge-elimination-system npdes-permits permit-shield water-quality-standards Whether the Clean Water Act allows EPA (or an authorized state) to impose generic prohibitions in NPDES permits that subject permitholders to enforcem…
23A631 Peter Williams v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-01-09 Presumed Complete certiorari due-process judicial-discretion petition-filing procedural-rules time-extension Whether the lower court's denial of an extension to file a petition for a writ of certiorari constitutes an abuse of discretion or violates due proces…
23A384 United States Steel Corporation v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2023-10-31 Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-authority clean-air-act environmental-regulation epa-rulemaking interstate-pollution Whether the EPA exceeded its statutory authority under the Clean Air Act in promulgating a new rule regulating interstate ozone pollution that imposes…
23-418 Concerned Household Electricity Consumers Council, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency District of Columbia 2023-10-19 Denied administrative-law agency-action consumer-group consumer-prices consumer-protection federal-agency-action injury-in-fact price-impact standing Can the 'injury in fact' element of standing be established by an evidentiary showing of increased consumer prices?
23A350 Kinder Morgan, Inc., et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2023-10-18 Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-action clean-air-act environmental-regulation epa-regulation statutory-interpretation Whether the EPA's regulatory action impermissibly exceeds its statutory authority under the Clean Air Act or violates principles of administrative law
23A351 American Forest & Paper Association, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2023-10-18 Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-authority clean-air-act emissions-standards epa-regulation statutory-interpretation Whether the Environmental Protection Agency exceeded its statutory authority under the Clean Air Act in promulgating regulations that impose stringent…
23A349 Ohio, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2023-10-18 Presumed Complete administrative-overreach clean-air-act epa-regulation greenhouse-gas power-plant-emissions statutory-interpretation Whether the Clean Air Act allows the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants beyond the statutory autho…
23-289 Marshall B. Lloyd, et al. v. Ford Motor Company Sixth Circuit 2023-09-22 Denied consumer-protection deceptive-advertising energy-policy-and-conservation-act epa-regulations epca-regulations fuel-economy implied-preemption preemption state-enforcement Are state deceptive advertising statutes impliedly preempted when the EPCA expressly permits state laws with requirements identical to those under the…
23-176 Robert Cox, et al. v. Helena Chemical Company Texas 2023-08-25 Denied due-process evidence evidence-exclusion expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment legal-standards property-rights state-court Whether the Due Process Clause prohibits a state court from depriving petitioners of property protected by the Fourteenth Amendment without allowing t…
23-103 Bruce Ellis, et al. v. City of Clarksdale, Mississippi, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-02 Denied attorney-general-certification civil-procedure constitutional-amendment court-jurisdiction due-process federal-question federal-rule-civil-procedure solicitor-general takings vagueness-doctrine whether-federal-rule-civil-procedure-5.1(b)-requires-court-certification-of-unconstitutional-act
22-1251 Simon V. Kinsella v. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, et al. District of Columbia 2023-06-29 Denied administrative-fraud administrative-law agency-review civil-rights due-process federal-procedure fraud injunctive-relief regulatory-misconduct standing Whether the Fifth Amendment requires that defendants answer allegations against them
22-789 Town of Southold, New York v. Rossana Rosado, New York State Secretary of State, et al. Second Circuit 2023-02-21 Denied administrative-procedure administrative-procedures-act burden-of-proof coastal-zone-management coastal-zone-management-act deference dredge-spoil-disposal environmental-policy environmental-protection federal-consistency national-environmental-policy standing Whether the EPA's designation of a permanent dredge spoil disposal site was consistent with the Town of Southold's enforceable coastal management poli…
21-1272 Monsanto Company v. Alberta Pilliod, et al. California 2022-03-21 Denied compensatory-damages due-process epa-regulation failure-to-warn federal-insecticide-fungicide-and-rodenticide-act fifra-preemption preemption product-labeling punitive-damages Whether FIFRA preempts a state-law failure-to-warn claim
21-519 Growth Energy v. American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers, et al. District of Columbia 2021-10-07 Denied administrative-law clean-air-act environmental-regulation epa-interpretation ethanol-blending ethanol-waiver fuel-blends reid-vapor-pressure statutory-construction statutory-interpretation volatility-limit Whether the United States Environmental Protection Agency may interpret the ethanol-waiver provision in 42 U.S.C. § 7545(h)(4) to apply to fuel blends…
21-454 Michael Sackett, et ux. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-09-24 Judgment Issued civil-rights clean-water-act due-process epa-authority navigable-waters rapanos-test rapanos-v-united-states significant-nexus wetlands-jurisdiction Should Rapanos be revisited to adopt the plurality's test for wetlands jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act?
21-312 Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, et al. v. Ohio, ex rel. Dave Yost, Attorney General Ohio 2021-08-31 Denied clean-air-act emission-standards epa-authority federal-regulation nationwide-updates preemption state-regulation vehicle-emissions vehicle-regulation Whether the Clean Air Act preempts state and local governments from regulating manufacturers' post-sale, nationwide updates to vehicle emission system…
21-241 Monsanto Company v. Edwin Hardeman Ninth Circuit 2021-08-18 Denied daubert-standard epa-approval expert-testimony failure-to-warn federal-insecticide-fungicide-and-rodenticide-act fifra-preemption herbicide-regulation preemption state-law-claims Whether FIFRA preempts a state-law failure-to-warn claim
20-1780 North Dakota v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2021-06-23 Judgment Issued clean-air-act environmental-law environmental-protection-agency epa-regulations federalism performance-standards state-implementation stationary-sources Can EPA promulgate regulations for existing stationary sources that require States to apply binding nationwide 'performance standards' at a level, ins…
20-1778 Westmoreland Mining Holdings LLC v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2021-06-23 Judgment Issued administrative-law agency-authority carbon-emissions clean-air-act clean-power-plan energy-policy environmental-regulation epa hazardous-air-pollutants section-111(d) section-112 statutory-interpretation Whether EPA may employ 42 U.S.C. § 7411(d) to impose standards of performance on existing stationary sources that are regulated under the 'hazardous a…
20-1530 West Virginia, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2021-05-04 Judgment Issued administrative-law clean-air-act congressional-authority congressional-power energy-policy environmental-protection-agency environmental-regulation epa-authority federalism separation-of-powers Did Congress constitutionally authorize the EPA to issue significant rules without limits under the Clean Air Act?
20-1531 The North American Coal Corporation v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2021-05-04 Judgment Issued administrative-law agency-authority carbon-dioxide-emissions carbon-emissions clean-air-act clean-power-plan environmental-regulation epa epa-regulation generation-shifting power-plants Whether 42 U.S.C. § 7411(d) grants the EPA authority to impose industry-wide systems like cap-and-trade regimes
20-1099 Gadsden Industrial Park, LLC v. United States Federal Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied 5th-amendment court-of-federal-claims due-process federal-circuit fifth-amendment inverse-condemnation just-compensation property-rights takings takings-clause tucker-act Whether the Court should fill a statutory and jurisprudential void in Tucker Act inverse condemnation 'takings' law
20-994 Volkswagen Group of America, Inc., et al. v. The Environmental Protection Commission of Hillsborough County, Florida, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied clean-air-act emission-standards federal-authority federal-regulation nationwide-updates preemption state-law state-regulation vehicle-emissions vehicle-regulation Whether the Clean Air Act preempts state and local governments from regulating manufacturers' post-sale, nationwide updates to vehicle emission system…
20-6696 La Verne Koenig v. Andrew Wheeler, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-12-23 Denied appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-precedent due-process equal-protection erie-doctrine federal-rules-of-civil-procedure full-faith-and-credit pro-se-litigation state-rights Does the Federal Rule [Fed. R. Civ. Pro. Rule 4] significantly affect the result of a litigation for a Federal Court to disregard a law of a State tha…
20-717 Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety, Inc. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-11-24 Denied article-iii article-iii-standing clean-water-act environmental-protection-agency environmental-standing epa-permitting hazardous-waste procedural-standing resource-conservation-and-recovery-act resource-conservation-recovery-act standing Does petitioner CCNS have Article III substantive standing to challenge the CWA permit?
19-835 Valero Energy Corporation, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency District of Columbia 2020-01-02 Denied administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-deference agency-discretion annual-rulemaking clean-air-act epa-rulemaking judicial-review point-of-obligation renewable-fuel-standard Whether EPA must consider the appropriateness of the point of obligation in each annual renewable fuel standard rulemaking
19A662 Sierra Club v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2019-12-12 Presumed Complete None
19A546 Valero Energy Corporation, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency District of Columbia 2019-11-15 Presumed Complete None
19A519 Chamber of Commerce, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency District of Columbia 2019-11-08 Presumed Complete None
19-592 County Commissioners of Carroll County, Maryland v. Maryland Department of the Environment Maryland 2019-11-06 Denied clean-water-act municipal-separate-storm-sewer-system nonpoint-source nonpoint-source-runoff npdes npdes-permit permitting point-source-discharge stormwater stormwater-discharge third-party-discharges Can responsibility for nonpoint source runoff and third parties' stormwater discharges be imposed upon a local government under the Clean Water Act th…
18-1264 Ronald Clark Fleshman, Jr. v. Volkswagen, AG, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-02 Denied administrative-law citizen-suit class-action-settlement clean-air-act defeat-devices emissions-standards epa epa-regulation state-implementation-plans statutory-interpretation vehicle-emissions vehicle-importation Can the EPA revise Clean Air Act to allow defeat devices,can EPA revise state plans to allow defeat devices,can a citizen intervene when EPA refuses t…
18-1110 Cecil Daughtrey, et ux. v. Luis E. Rivera Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-26 Denied army-corps-of-engineers bankruptcy-code-conversion bankruptcy-procedure bankruptcy-trustee bankruptcy-trustee-duties chapter-11-conversion debtor-interests department-of-interior department-of-justice due-process environmental-protection environmental-protection-agency government-agencies national-defense property-dispute property-rights trustee-actions us-government water-resource water-rights Denial of Chapter 11 conversion to hide unique global drinking water and energy resource
18-555 Marquette County Road Commission v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-10-29 Denied administrative-procedure-act administrative-procedure-act-apa agency-action clean-water-act clean-water-act-cwa environmental-protection epa-veto final-agency-action judicial-review permit-approval state-authority state-permitting wetlands Whether an arbitrary and capricious EPA veto of a state-approved CWA § 404 permit, a final agency action that denies the state-approved permit forever…
18-446 City of Taunton, Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency First Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied agency-deference causation causation-standard chevron-deference clean-water-act due-process effluent-limitations narrative-criteria npdes npdes-permit Whether the Clean Water Act and NPDES rules require a demonstration of causation beyond a 'mere possibility' to impose more restrictive effluent limit…
18A129 Marquette County Road Commission v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-08-03 Presumed Complete None