Legal Opinion
Guardians v. Environmental Protection Agency
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided July 29, 2016No. 14-1145PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge SRINIVASAN.
Under the Clean Air Act, the Environmental Protection Agency promulgates national ambient air quality standards. The Act sets out distinct statutory frameworks of varying levels of strictness for EPA to apply to air pollutants. This case involves the agency’s regulation under the Act of a specific pollutant: fine particulate matter. For some time, EPA subjected fine particulate matter to a relaxed statutory framework under the Act. In 2013, however, this court instructed the agency that the framework it had been applying to fine…
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