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24-982 ExxonMobil Corporation, et al. v. Environment Texas Citizen Lobby, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-03-13 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii citizen-suit clean-air-act environmental-litigation redressability traceability 1. Whether, as the Fifth Circuit has held, a plaintiff in a CAA citizen suit may satisfy Article III's traceability requirement merely by showing that…
24-961 Environmental Protection Agency, et al. v. Kentucky, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-03-06 Denied Relisted (2) 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…
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 Question not identified.
24-450 Ohio, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-10-22 Denied Response Waived 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 Question not identified.
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 Question not identified.
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 Question not identified.
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 Question not identified.
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 Question not identified.
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 Question not identified.
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 Question not identified.
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 Question not identified.
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 Question not identified.
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 Question not identified.
24A116 Edison Electric Institute, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-07-31 Presumed Complete Amici (1) administrative-law agency-authority clean-air-act electric-power-industry epa-regulation greenhouse-gas Question not identified.
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 Question not identified.
24A106 Electric Generators for a Sensible Transition v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-07-30 Presumed Complete Amici (1) administrative-overreach clean-air-act climate-change epa-regulation fossil-fuel major-questions-doctrine Question not identified.
24A95 West Virginia, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-07-26 Presumed Complete Amici (1) administrative-overreach clean-air-act environmental-policy epa-authority greenhouse-gas-emissions power-plant-regulation Question not identified.
24A96 National Rural Electric Cooperative v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-07-26 Presumed Complete Amici (1) administrative-overreach agency-authority clean-air-act electric-power epa-regulation statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
24A97 National Mining Association and America's Power v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-07-26 Presumed Complete Amici (1) administrative-law agency-authority clean-air-act epa-regulations greenhouse-gas power-plant-emissions Question not identified.
24-7 Diamond Alternative Energy, LLC, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-07-08 Judgment Issued Amici (29)Response WaivedRelisted (8) article-iii-standing california-waiver clean-air-act epa-waiver greenhouse-gas-emissions preemption standing zero-emission-vehicle 1. Whether a party may establish the redressability component of Article III standing by relying on the coercive and predictable effects of regulation…
23-1229 Environmental Protection Agency v. Calumet Shreveport Refining, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-05-22 Judgment Issued Amici (6)Response WaivedRelisted (3) 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 because the agency's denial actions are "nationally applicable" or, …
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 EPA's denial of small refinery hardship exemption petitions under the Clean Air Act's Renewable Fuel Standard program is a "nationally app…
23-1068 PacifiCorp, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-04-01 Judgment Issued Relisted (4) administrative-law circuit-court-jurisdiction clean-air-act environmental-regulation epa-disapproval federal-jurisdiction judicial-review standing state-implementation-plan Whether the Environmental Protection Agency's disapproval of a State Implementation Plan may only be challenged in the D.C. Circuit under 42 U.S.C. § …
23-1067 Oklahoma, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-04-01 Judgment Issued Amici (4)Relisted (4) 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 Response Waived administrative-petition administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act clean-air-act due-process environmental-protection-agency epa-action petition-for-review standing statutory-interpretation timeliness 1. Whether Williams could have petitioned for review using non-record rebuttal evidence within 60 days of EPA's initial action. 2. Whether the Act re…
23A841 Growth Energy, et al. v. Calumet Shreveport Refining, LLC., et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-03-14 Presumed Complete clean-air-act disproportionate-economic-hardship epa-interpretation renewable-fuel-standard rins-credits small-refinery-exemption Question not identified.
23-952 Shell PLC, fka Royal Dutch Shell PLC, et al. v. City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii, et al. Hawaii 2024-03-01 Denied CVSGRelisted (2) clean-air-act climate-change constitutional-law federal-law federal-preemption foreign-emissions interstate-emissions preemption state-law 1. Whether claims seeking damages for the effects of interstate and international emissions on the global climate are beyond the limits of state law a…
23A651 Sunoco LP, et al. v. City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii, et al. Hawaii 2024-01-16 Presumed Complete clean-air-act climate-change federal-common-law interstate-emissions personal-jurisdiction state-law-claims Whether federal law precludes state-law claims seeking redress for injuries allegedly caused by the effects of interstate greenhouse-gas emissions on …
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 Question not identified.
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 Question not identified.
23A350 Kinder Morgan, Inc., et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2023-10-18 Presumed Complete Amici (1) administrative-law agency-action clean-air-act environmental-regulation epa-regulation statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
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 Question not identified.
23-143 Minnesota Automobile Dealers Association v. Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Minnesota 2023-08-16 Denied Response Waived california-standards california-waiver clean-air-act environmental-law federal-preemption maintenance-plans national-ambient-air-quality-standards nonattainment-areas state-regulation vehicle-emission-standards vehicle-emissions Whether, under Section 177 of the Clean Air Act, Minnesota qualifies to adopt California's vehicle emission standards when there are no areas in Minne…
22-48 AC Interests, L.P. v. Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Texas 2022-07-19 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights clean-air-act due-process emission-reduction-credits equitable-tolling mootness takings takings-clause 1. Should Common Law allow the 60-month deadline for using emission reduction credits to be equitably tolled while a party seeks to establish the righ…
21-519 Growth Energy v. American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers, et al. District of Columbia 2021-10-07 Denied Response Waived 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…
21-312 Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, et al. v. Ohio, ex rel. Dave Yost, Attorney General Ohio 2021-08-31 Denied Amici (4) clean-air-act emission-standards epa-authority federal-regulation nationwide-updates preemption state-regulation vehicle-emissions vehicle-regulation Title II of the Clean Air Act ("CAA") grants the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") broad and exclusive authority to enforce auto manufactur…
20-1780 North Dakota v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2021-06-23 Judgment Issued Amici (3)Relisted (4) clean-air-act environmental-law environmental-protection-agency epa-regulations federalism performance-standards state-implementation stationary-sources Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act ("CAA"), 42 U.S.C. § 7411(d), governs air emissions from stationary sources of air pollutants. Section 111(d) expl…
20-1778 Westmoreland Mining Holdings LLC v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2021-06-23 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Relisted (4) 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 1. Whether EPA may employ 42 U.S.C. § 7411(d) to impose standards of performance on existing stationary sources that are regulated under the "hazardou…
20-1531 The North American Coal Corporation v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2021-05-04 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Relisted (4) 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), which authorizes the EPA to impose standards "for any existing source" based on limits "achievable through the applicatio…
20-1530 West Virginia, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2021-05-04 Judgment Issued Amici (8)Relisted (4) administrative-law clean-air-act congressional-authority congressional-power energy-policy environmental-protection-agency environmental-regulation epa-authority federalism separation-of-powers In 42 U.S.C. § 7411(d), an ancillary provision of the Clean Air Act, did Congress constitutionally authorize the Environmental Protection Agency to is…
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 CVSGAmici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) clean-air-act emission-standards federal-authority federal-regulation nationwide-updates preemption state-law state-regulation vehicle-emissions vehicle-regulation Title II of the Clean Air Act ("CAA") grants the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") broad and exclusive authority to enforce auto manufactur…
19-835 Valero Energy Corporation, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency District of Columbia 2020-01-02 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-deference agency-discretion annual-rulemaking clean-air-act epa-rulemaking judicial-review point-of-obligation renewable-fuel-standard The requirement that EPA "shall" make a "calendar year" determination of the "appropriate" point of obligation requires EPA to consider in each annual…
18-1264 Ronald Clark Fleshman, Jr. v. Volkswagen, AG, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-02 Denied Response Waived 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 1. Can the Environmental Protection Agency revise clear statutory terms of the Clean Air Act to allow the importation, sale, and use of motor vehic…
18-666 Alliance for California Business v. California Air Resources Board California 2018-11-21 Denied Response Waived clean-air-act epa epa-approval epa-regulation judicial-review sovereign-jurisdiction state-courts state-implementation-plan state-jurisdiction state-law state-law-challenges statutory-interpretation Whether, under a provision of the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. § 7607(b)(1), the inclusion of a state regulation in an EPA-approved State Implementation P…
18-629 Jack Cody v. California Air Resources Board, et al. California 2018-11-14 Denied Response Waived clean-air-act concurrent-jurisdiction constitutional-challenge constitutional-review environmental-regulation federal-constitutional-defense federal-preemption judicial-review state-court-jurisdiction state-environmental-regulation statutory-interpretation In this case of first impression before this Court, does the CAA withdraw concurrent state court jurisdiction to adjudicate the constitutionality of s…