The court vacates the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) approval of a county's Clean Air Act (CAA) new source review (NSR) program because EPA did not adequately assess whether the revised program would meet current attainment requirements. Before EPA approved the county's revised NSR progra...

The court denies an environmental group's petition to review the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) approval of Maryland's revised motor vehicle emissions budget (MVEB) for the Baltimore ozone nonattainment area. In 1999, EPA determined that the MVEB in the state's attainment demonstrati...

The court affirms in part and reverses in part a district court grant of summary judgment in favor of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in a suit brought by an individual who alleged that a BLM transfer of federal lands in Nevada violated the Clean Air Act (CAA) and the National Environmental Poli...

The court upholds the conviction of a fertilizer company owner who allowed hazardous waste to be disposed of without a permit while knowing that his actions placed others in imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury, but the court vacates a district court order requiring the owner to pay a $...

The court upholds an individual's conviction under the Clean Air Act (CAA) for unlawfully removing and disposing of asbestos from a building in violation of the national emissions standards for hazardous air pollutants for asbestos and accompanying work-practice standards. The individual bought an a...

The court dismisses an environmental group's Clean Air Act (CAA) citizen suit alleging that two Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) plants exceeded Tennessee's state implementation plan (SIP) requirement of 20% opacity for visible emissions 6,500 times between 1996 and 2000. The court first holds that ...

The court affirms a district court conviction and sentencing of an individual for six counts of violating the Clean Air Act's (CAA's) asbestos national emissions standard for hazardous air pollutants. The individual argued that the CAA requires proof of specific knowledge of the regulations violated...

The court affirms a February 2001, district court order requiring the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to make an air quality attainment status determination for the St. Louis, Missouri, area and to publish it in the Federal Register by March 20, 2001, and affirms a subsequent court order ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denies petitioners' challenge to a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule requiring drastic reductions in exhaust emissions from diesel trucks and buses beginning in 2007 and requiring the maximum sulfur content of diesel fuel t...

The court vacates the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) approval of the revised ozone state implementation plans (SIPs) for the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Area (Washington Metropolitan Area), made up of the District of Columbia, portions of Maryland, and portions of Virginia. The di...