Madison Gas & Electric Company v. United States Environmental Protection Agency

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

Section 307(b)(1) of the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. § 7607(b)(1), provides that petitions to review “nationally applicable regulations” issued by the Environmental Protection Agency under the Act are reviewable only in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, while petitions to review “locally or regionally applicable” actions by the agency are reviewable only in the regional courts of appeals. The EPA asks us to dismiss Madison Gas and Electric Company’s petition to review a portion of the EPA’s new acid-rain regulations, 58 Fed.Reg.…