United States Second Circuit

New York's Air Pollution Mitigation Law, N.Y. Pub. Serv. L. section 66-k, is preempted by Title IV of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, 42 U.S.C. sections 7651-7651o, and therefore violates the Supremacy Clause of the US Constitution.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/01/2003
• Published 08/01/2003

Judges

• JOSÉ A. CABRANES, Circuit Judge., Before:  WINTER and CABRANES, Circuit Judges, and AMON, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Peter Lehner, Assistant Attorney General (Robert Rosenthal, Assistant Attorney General, Denise A. Hartman, Assistant Solicitor General, and Caitlin J. Halligan, Solicitor General, of counsel;  Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General, on the brief), Albany, NY, for Defendant-Appellant George E. Pataki., Diane T. Dean, Assistant Counsel (Lawrence G. Malone, General Counsel, on the brief), Public Service Commission of the State of New York, Albany, NY, for Defendants-Appellants Helmer, Dunleavy, Bennett, Weiss, and Galvin., Norman W. Fichthorn (Allison D. Wood, on the brief) Hunton & Williams, Washington, D.C. for Plaintiff-Appellee.