Legal Opinion
Sierra Club v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 24, 2007No. 06-3907PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The federal Environmental Protection Agency (actually, Illinois’s counterpart to the EPA, exercising authority that the federal EPA had delegated to it, but we can ignore that detail) issued a permit to Prairie State Generating Company to build a 1,500-megawatt coal-fired electrical generating plant in southern Illinois, near St. Louis. Environmentalists asked the EPA’s Environmental Appeals Board to reverse the issuance of the permit, and, the Board having refused, In re Prairie State Generating Co., No. 05-05 (EAB Aug. 24, 2006), they renew the quarrel in this court.…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation v. Environmental Protection AgencySupreme Court of the United States · 2004
- Alabama Power Company v. Douglas M. Costle, as Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency, Sierra Club, Intervenors.Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1980
- Environmental Defense v. Duke Energy CorporationSupreme Court of the United States · 2007
- New York v. U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2005
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3Cited by22 opinions
- Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPASupreme Court of the United States · 2014
- Sierra Club v. MoserSupreme Court of Kansas · 2013
- Utah Chapter of the Sierra Club v. Air Quality BoardUtah Supreme Court · 2009
- Natural Resources Defense Council v. Department of Environmental QualityMichigan Court of Appeals · 2013
- Powder River Basin Resource Council v. Wyoming Department of Environmental QualityWyoming Supreme Court · 2010
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