United States Fifth Circuit

Petition for review denied where the EPA's approval of Texas's one-hour ozone attainment demonstration state implementation plan for the Houston-Galveston severe ozone nonattainment area is not arbitrary, capricious, or otherwise not in accordance with law.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/28/2003
• Published 10/28/2003

Judges

• DAVIS, Circuit Judge, and RESTANI, Judge:, Before DAVIS and BENAVIDES, Circuit Judges, and RESTANI, Judge.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• F. Walter Conrad, Jr.,Jacob Scott Janoe, Baker Botts, Houston, TX, Pamela M. Giblin,David Andrew Savage (argued), Derek Raymond McDonald, Baker Botts, Austin, TX, for BCCA Appeal Group, Petitioner., John Stephen Carow (argued), Austin, TX, for State of Texas, Intervenor., Tracy Don Hester, Rebecca Jane Rentz, Bracewell & Patterson, Michael Anthony Stafford, Asst. Cty. Atty., Houston, TX, for Harris Cty., TX, Intervenor., James B. Blackburn, Jr., Blackburn & Carter, Houston, TX, for Elioseff, Galveston-Houston Ass'n for Smog Prevention and Galveston Bay Conservation and Preservation Ass'n, Intervenors., Robert E. Yuhnke (argued), Robert E. Yuhnke & Associates, Boulder, CO, for Marrack and Environmental Defense, Intervenors., Patrick Gallagher (argued), Sierra Club, San Francisco, CA, for Sierra Club, Intervenor., William Joseph Boyce (argued), Fulbright & Jaworski, Houston, TX, William A. Zeis, Fulbright & Jaworski, Austin, TX, for Houston-Galvestion Area Council, Intervenor., Craig Louis Weinstock, Gerald J. Pels (argued), Locke Liddell & Sapp, Houston, TX, for City of Houston, Intervenor., John DuVal Walke, David Gregg McIntosh (argued), Natural Resources Defense, Washington, DC, for Natural Resources Defense Council, Intervenor., Robert E. Morse, III (argued), Crain, Caton & James, Houston, TX, for Brazoria Cty., TX, Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Wendy Lynn Blake, Thomas Allen Lorenzen (argued), U.S. Dept. of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Div., Kenneth C. Amaditz (argued), Lily N. Chinn (argued), U.S. Dept. of Justice, Environmental Defense Section, Christine T. Whitman, U.S. EPA, Washington, DC, for U.S. E.P.A., Whitman and Greene, Respondents.