United States Ninth Circuit

In an action brought to enjoin the enforcement of state regulations limiting emissions from the auxiliary diesel engines of ocean-going vessels within twenty-four miles of California's coast, an injunction against the rules' enforcement is affirmed and reimposed as the Clean Air Act section 209(e)(2) preempts the Marine Vessel Rules and requires California to obtain EPA authorization prior to enforcement because the Rules are "emissions standards" that require that engines "not emit more than a certain amount of a given pollutant."

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/12/2008
• Decided 02/27/2008
• Published 02/27/2008

Judges

• Before:  BARRY G. SILVERMAN, M. MARGARET McKEOWN, and RICHARD C. TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Barbara Baird, District Counsel, Diamond Bar, California;  David Pettit, Natural Resources Defense Council, Santa Monica, CA;  Jay M. Spillane, Spillane Shaeffer Aronoff Bandlow LLP, Los Angeles, CA;  Dominic T. Holzhaus, Principal Deputy City Attorney for City of Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, for the intervenors-appellants., Janice K. Raburn, American Petroleum Institute, Washington, DC;  Kevin M. Fong, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, San Francisco, CA, for the amicus.


• For Appellees:
  
• Nicholas Stern, Deputy Attorney General of the State of California, Sacramento, CA, for the defendant-appellant., Erich P. Wise, Flynn, Delich & Wise LLP, Long Beach, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee.