Legal Opinion
Council of Commuter Organizations v. Anne M. Gorsuch, Administrator, and the United States Environmental Protection Agency
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided June 16, 1982No. 853, Docket 81-4210PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NEWMAN, Circuit Judge:
This appeal is the latest in a long line of efforts by environmental groups and concerned citizens to secure a reduction of pollution levels in the New York City metropolitan area as required by the Clean Air Act. In previous efforts, the environmental groups obtained a court order enforcing New York’s earlier decision to impose tolls on bridges to Manhattan as one of many strategies chosen by the State to reduce intolerably high levels of pollution in the New York City area. But before the bridge toll strategy was implemented, Congress in the 1977 Amendments to the…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. VolpeSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Train v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1975
- International Harvester Co. v. RuckelshausCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1973
- Union Electric Co. v. Environmental Protection AgencySupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Friends of the Earth v. Hugh CareyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1976
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3Cited by18 opinions
- United States Environmental Protection Agency Ex Rel. McKeown v. Port Authority of New York & New JerseyDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 2001
- Wilder v. ThomasCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1988
- Wilder v. ThomasCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1988
- Council of Commuter Organizations v. Metropolitan Transportation AuthorityCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1982
- State of Arizona v. Lee M. Thomas, Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1987
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