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Texans United for a Safe Economy Educ. Fund v. Crown Cent. Petroleum Corp.

The court holds that environmental groups have standing to bring a Clean Air Act (CAA) action against a Texas oil refinery for violating hydrogen and sulfur dioxide emission standards and further holds that a state environmental agency's administrative action against the refinery for the same violat...

Natural Resources Defense Council v. Daley

The court holds that the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) did not comply with the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act) or its regulations when it promulgated the 1999 summer flounder fishing quota. The court first holds that the summer flounder fish...

Arizona Pub. Serv. Co. v. EPA

The court holds that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) regulations implementing Clean Air Act (CAA) amendments properly delegated to Native American nations authority to regulate air quality on all land within reservations, including fee land held by private landowners who are not t...

Allied Local & Reg'l Mfrs. Caucus v. EPA

The court holds that U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations limiting the content of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in architectural coatings and paints under the Clean Air Act (CAA) are lawful. The court first holds that nothing in the CAA unambiguously requires EPA to analyze the...

Exxon Mobil Corp. v. EPA

The court upholds the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) approval of the Nevada Clean Air Act (CAA) state implementation plan (SIP) revision that requires gasoline sold in the wintertime in Clark County, Nevada, which is a serious nonattainment area for carbon monoxide (CO), to contain a...

Hawaii County Green Party v. Clinton

The court denies environmental groups' motion to reopen a previous action and dismisses the groups' current action against the federal government in which the groups allege that the U.S. Navy violated the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the Endangered Species Act (ESA), and the Marine Mamm...

Klamath Siskiyou Wildlands Ctr. v. Babbitt

The court holds that environmental groups are entitled to an award of attorney fees under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) in connection with their lawsuit against the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) for failing to timely publish final rules for one endangered butterfly and five endangered pla...

Michigan Mfrs. Ass'n v. Browner

The court affirms the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) disapproval of a revision to the Michigan Clean Air Act (CAA) state implementation plan (SIP) that automatically exempts from state review emissions violations resulting from the startup, shutdown, or malfunction (SSM) of the sourc...

Public Serv. Co. of Colo. v. EPA

The court dismisses a power plants's motion to challenge the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) determination that a proposed new plant, when combined with an existing plant, would constitute a single source of air emission for permitting purposes under the Clean Air Act (CAA). The plant...

Berry v. Farmland Indus., Inc.

The court holds that individuals lack standing to bring a Clean Air Act (CAA) citizen suit against a petroleum refinery for failing to report certain CAA emissions violations from its catalyst regenerator, but the individuals do have standing to maintain a CAA citizen suit against the refinery for f...