Quiet Communities, Inc. v. United States Environmental Protection Agency

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA QUIET COMMUNITIES, INC., et al., Plaintiffs, Case No. 23-cv-1649 (JMC) v. UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, et al., Defendants. MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER In the 1970s, Congress passed two laws—together, the Noise Control Act—that tasked the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with regulating noise. For nearly a decade, the EPA implemented the Act. But in 1981, President Reagan submitted a budget proposal to Congress through which he sought to wind down the EPA’s noise control work. Congress debated that proposal and…