Legal Opinion
Sierra Club v. Tennessee Valley Authority
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided November 22, 2005No. 04-15324PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARNES, Circuit Judge:
In this case the Sierra Club and the Alabama Environmental Council, two environmental groups, sued the Tennessee Valley Authority under the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 7401 et seq., claiming that TVA’s plant in Colbert County, Alabama violated the 20% opacity limitation, Ala. Admin. Code r. 335-3-4-.01(l)(a), which is part of Alabama’s state implementation plan (SIP) approved by the Environmental Protection Agency. The complaint alleged that there were more than 8,900 violations during the five-year period from 1997 to 2002, and it sought declaratory and injunc-tive…
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