Legal Opinion
American Petroleum Institute v. Environmental Protection Agency
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided April 18, 1986No. 84-4573PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDITH HOLLAN JONES, Circuit Judge:
The American Petroleum Institute, an industry trade association, and four individual companies, Atlantic Richfield Company, Conoco, Inc., Exxon Corporation, and Mobil Oil Corporation (hereinafter collectively “API” or “industry”), seek judicial review of the action by the Regional Administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency’s Region 10 (“Region 10”) in issuing two permits controlling discharges of pollutants from offshore drilling rigs to the Alaskan Outer Continental Shelf (“OCS”) and territorial seas. The two challenged permits, issued on May 30,…
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