United States Eleventh Circuit

In an action under the Clean Air Act, grant of summary judgment for defendant is reversed as to certain alleged violations where a state agency's use of a 2% de minimis rule throughout the period in question was an illegal, unilateral modification of the Alabama state implementation plan approved by the EPA.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/22/2005
• Published 11/22/2005

Judges

• CARNES, Circuit Judge:, Before BIRCH, CARNES and FAY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Reed Zars, Laramie, WY, William J. Moore, III, Jacksonville, FL, George E. Hays, San Francisco, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellants., R. Justin Smith, U.S. Dept. of Justice, John L. Wittenborn, Joseph J. Green, Collier Shannon Scott, PLLC, Washington, DC, William Duncan Little, Montgomery, AL, Michael D. Freeman, Thomas R. Head, III, Steven G. McKinney, P. Stephen Gidiere, III, Balch & Bingham, LLP, Birmingham, AL, for Amici Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Todd L. Fulks, Harriet A. Cooper, Frank H. Lancaster, Gregory R. Signer, TVA, Knoxville, TN, for Defendant-Appellee.