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Sierra Club v. EPA

Center for Biological Diversity v. EPA 

10-1115D.C. Cir.1 entry
Filing Date
Type
Action Taken
Document
Summary
05/28/2010
Petition
Petition for review filed.
Center for Biological Diversity filed a petition for review challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) reconsideration of the interpretive memorandum issued by former EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson in December 2008.

Sierra Club v. EPA 

10-1215D.C. Cir.1 entry
Filing Date
Type
Action Taken
Document
Summary
08/02/2010
Petition
Petition for review filed.
Sierra Club filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) final Prevention of Significant Deterioration and Title V Greenhouse Gas Tailoring Rule to the extent it codified former EPA Administrator Johnson's interpretive memo governing when pollutants become “subject to regulation” under the Clean Air Act. Sierra Club noted that it had intervened to defend other aspects of the rule in industry lawsuits challenging the final rule.

Center for Biological Diversity v. EPA 

10-1388D.C. Cir.2 entries
Filing Date
Type
Action Taken
Document
Summary
11/16/2010
Petition
Order issued severing and consolidating case.
The D.C. Circuit directed that the claim involving timing issues in this challenge to EPA's final Prevention of Significant Deterioration and Title V Greenhouse Gas Tailoring Rule be severed and consolidated with other pending cases challenging former EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson's December 2008 interpretive memo and EPA's reconsideration of the memo.
08/30/2010
Statement
Statement of issues filed.

California v. EPA 

09-1088D.C. Cir.1 entry
Filing Date
Type
Action Taken
Document
Summary
03/02/2009
Petition
Petition for review filed.

Sierra Club v. EPA 

09-1018D.C. Cir.6 entries
Filing Date
Type
Action Taken
Document
Summary
07/17/2014
Stipulation
Joint stipulation of dismissal filed.
11/16/2010
Decision
Order issued consolidating Nos. 10-1115, 10-1215, and 10-1388 with these cases and holding cases in abeyance pending further order of the court.
09/14/2010
Motion
Order issued directing that cases continue to be held in abeyance to allow other pending proceedings that may affect the outcome to proceed.
06/09/2010
Motion
Motion to govern further proceedings filed by EPA.