United States Ninth Circuit

In a petition for review of the EPA's approval of a state air-pollutant reduction program, the petition is denied where the EPA acted lawfully under 42 U.S.C. section 7509(d)(2) by not requiring implementation of "all feasible measures" into the program.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/21/2008
• Decided 03/05/2009
• Published 03/05/2009

Judges

• GRABER, Circuit Judge:, Before:  J. CLIFFORD WALLACE, SIDNEY R. THOMAS and SUSAN P. GRABER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Paul Cort, Earthjustice, Oakland, CA, for the petitioners.


• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas A. Lorenzen and Christina B. Parascandola, United States Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Washington, D.C., for the respondent., Philip M. Jay, District Counsel, San Joaquin Valley Unified Air PollutionControl District, Fresno, CA;  David E. Cranston, Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger LLP, Los Angeles, CA;  and Rissa A. Stuart, Kahn, Soares & Conway, LLP, Hanford, CA, for the respondent-intervenors.