Legal Opinion
Environmental Integrity Project v. United States Environmental Protection Agency
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided March 29, 2016No. Civil Action No. 14-1282 (JEB)PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
*38MEMORANDUM OPINION
JAMES E. BOASBERG, United States District Judge
Although this suit purports to be about effluents, it is, at its core, a case about the interplay of the Freedom of Information Act and the Clean Water Act. In 2010, as part'of its effort to craft new pollution-control regulations, the Environmental Protection Agency took two actions relevant here: it sent a questionnaire to over 700 steam-driven power plants, and it gathered information from vendors who sold equipment and services to those plants. These surveys were designed to collect data about pollution and gain insight into…
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