Legal Opinion
Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Environmental Protection Agency
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided April 25, 2006No. 05-5015PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TATEL, Circuit Judge.
This case poses the question whether the word “daily,” as used in the Clean Water Act, is sufficiently pliant to mean a measure of time other than daily. Specifically, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) takes the position that Congress, in requiring the establishment of “total maximum daily loads” to cap effluent discharges of “suitable” pollutants into highly polluted waters, left room for EPA to establish seasonal or annual loads for those same pollutants. The district court found EPA’s contextual and policy arguments sufficiently persuasive to disregard the…
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