Premiere Associates, Inc. v. EXL Polymers, Inc.
The Eleventh Circuit, in an unpublished opinion, held that recycled carpet waste, known as carpet selvedge, is a "recovered material" that has the potential for reuse and not a solid waste under RCRA or Georgia law. Accordingly, a carpet manufacturer that sent carpet selvedge to a site for recycling...
American Tradition Institute Environmental Law Center v. United States Environmental Protection Agency
A district court dismissed a nonprofit group's lawsuit seeking to halt EPA studies that expose humans to fine particulate matter. The challenged EPA conduct does not constitute final agency action. EPA's alleged failure to comply with an agency rule does not constitute "agency action". And even if i...
American Petroleum Institute v. Environmental Protection Agency
The D.C. Circuit vacated EPA's 2012 projection of cellulosic biofuel production under the renewable fuel standard (RFS) program. As part of the RFS program, CAA §211(o)(7)(D)(i) requires EPA to determine the "projected volume of cellulosic biofuel production" for each calendar year based on an esti...