Center for Biological Diversity v. Environmental Protection Agency

I disagree that petitioners — the Conservation Groups — have standing under Article III of the Constitution to proceed with their petition for review.1

The case is about the Environmental Protection Agency’s approval of a new insecticide. The Conservation Groups claim that their members will suffer injuries because EPA allegedly neglected to follow proper procedures in approving the insecticide. The “deprivation of a procedural right without some concrete interest that is affected by the deprivation — a procedural right in vacuo — is insufficient to create Article III standing.” Summers v.…