A California court overturned a small claims court's grant of damages in favor of a woman who filed suit against an automobile manufacturer for making fraudulent claims about her hybrid car…
A district court held that EPA does not have a mandatory duty to review and, if necessary, promulgate new PSD rules for ozone simply because the NAAQS for ozone has been revised. The history of…
A district court held that an environmental group may go forward with its CAA citizen suit against EPA for failing to promulgate by November 15, 2000, regulations to reduce hazardous air…
The Fifth Circuit vacated EPA's disapproval of three Texas regulations that provide for a standardized permit for minor new source review (NSR) pollution control projects that reduce or…
The D.C. Circuit upheld EPA's rule designating certain areas in Utah as nonattainment for the 2006 24-hour fine particulate matter (PM2.5) standard. Petitioners—two counties, three cities,…
A district court partially dismissed EPA's lawsuit against an energy company for violating the CAA when it allegedly undertook major modifications at a coal-fired power plant in Festus,…
The Ninth Circuit held that EPA's approval of the 2004 SIP for the San Joaquin Valley nonattainment area for the one-hour ozone NAAQS was arbitrary and capricious. Although it approved the…
The Federal Circuit, in a case involving an electronics manufacturer's challenge to excise taxes on the use of ozone depleting chemicals (ODCs), reversed a lower court decision ordering the…
The Ninth Circuit denied a chemical company's petitions for review challenging EPA's partial disapproval of a proposed revision to Montana's SIP governing sulfur dioxide (SO2)…
A district court dismissed an automobile engine manufacturer's lawsuit against EPA seeking to force the Agency to recall model year 2010 heavy-duty diesel engines equipped with liquid, urea…