Legal Opinion
Northwest Environmental Advocates v. United States Environmental Protection Agency
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided July 23, 2008No. 03-74795, 06-17187, 06-17188PublishedCited by 78 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiffs in this case are Northwest Environmental Advocates, San Francisco Baykeeper, and The Ocean Conservancy. Plaintiffs-intervenors are the States of Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Plaintiffs and plaintiffs-intervenors challenge a regulation originally promulgated by the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) in 1973 exempting certain marine discharges from the permitting scheme of sections 301(a) and' 402 of the Clean Water Act (“CWA”). That regulation, 40 C.F.R. § 122.3(a), provides that the following vessel…
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