Legal Opinion
Shell Oil Co. v. Train
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided November 3, 1978No. 76-1870PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HUFSTEDLER, Circuit Judge.
Shell Oil Company (“Shell”) brought this action in the district court against the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and its Administrator as one of its several assaults on the decisions of the California Regional Water Quality Control Board for the San Francisco Bay Region (“regional board”) concerning a pollutant discharge permit for Shell’s Martinez, California facility. Reasoning that there was no federal action for the court to review since a state administrative agency and not the federal EPA had rejected Shell’s permit and variance applications, the…
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