Legal Opinion

Utility Solid Waste Activities Group v. Environmental Protection Agency

Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit

Decided January 30, 2001No. Nos. 99-1372, 99-1374PublishedCited by 70 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge RANDOLPH.

RANDOLPH, Circuit Judge:

Utility Solid Waste Activities Group and General Electric petition this court to vacate in part an alteration of the Environmental Protection Agency’s rules regulating the use of porous substances contaminated by polychlorinated biphe-nyls (“PCBs”). PCBs are outstanding insulators and do not burn easily — characteristics that make them useful in transformers, capacitors, and other electrical equipment. PCBs are also carcinogenic and toxic, and may cause immune system suppression, liver damage, endocrine disruption…

2Cases cited17 opinions

Heckler v. ChaneySupreme Court of the United States · 1985
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Appalachian Power Co. v. Environmental Protection AgencyCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2000
Miriam Rodway v. The United States Department of AgricultureCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1975
Texaco, Inc. v. Federal Power CommissionCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1969

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