Legal Opinion
Klein v. United States Department of Energy
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided May 21, 2014No. 13-1165PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SUTTON, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which MERRITT and STRANCH, JJ., concurred. STRANCH, J. (pp. 585-87), delivered a separate concurrence.
OPINION
SUTTON, Circuit Judge.
In connection with an alternative energy-program created by Congress, Frontier Renewable Resources sought funding from the United States Department of Energy to build a plant in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan that would convert lumber into ethanol. The federal program subsidizes renewable energy projects as part of an effort to lessen the country’s dependence on fossil fuels. Larry Klein and the Sierra Club sued…
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