Legal Opinion
WildEarth Guardians v. United States Environmental Protection Agency
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided October 21, 2014No. 12-9596, 13-9502, 13-9506, 13-9507, 13-9508, 13-9509, 13-9510PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BACHARACH, Circuit Judge.
This appeal grows out of the Clean Air Act. In an effort to comply with the statute, three states (New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming), one city (City of Albuquerque), and one county (Bernalillo County) adopted a regional cap-and-trade program regulating sulfur-dioxide emissions over the Colorado Plateau. 1 Under this program, each participant obtained a ceiling on sulfur-dioxide emissions. If the ceiling was met, polluters would get allocations of sulfur dioxide that could be emitted. With these allocations, polluters had a choice. They could use the allocations or cut…
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3Cited by16 opinions
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