United States Ninth Circuit

The Endangered Species Act authorizes the EPA to consider the impact on endangered species and their habitat when it decides whether to transfer water pollution permitting authority to state governments.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/01/2004
• Decided 08/22/2005
• Published 08/22/2005

Judges

• BERZON, Circuit Judge:, Before: REINHARDT, THOMPSON, and BERZON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael P. Senatore (argued), Michael P. Senatore, Defenders of Wildlife, Washington, D.C., Eric R. Glitzenstein, Meyer & Glitzenstein, Washington, D.C., Vera S. Kornylak, Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest, Tucson, AZ (on the brief), for the petitioners., James T. Skardon, Office of the Arizona Attorney General, Phoenix, AZ, for intervenor State of Arizona., Russell S. Frye, Collier Shannon Scott, P.L.L.C., Washington, D.C., for intervenors Arizona Chamber of Commerce, et al., Norman D. James, Esq. (argued), Norman D. James, Thomas R. Wilmoth, Fennemore Craig, Phoenix, AZ, for intervenors National Association of Home Builders, et al.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert L. Gulley (argued), Thomas L. Sansonetti, Robert L. Gulley, John M. Lipshultz, Andrew Mergen, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. (on the brief), for respondents Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.