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The Climate Litigation Database

American Chemistry Council v. EPA

Geography
🇺🇸 United States / District of Columbia
Year
2009
Document Type
Litigation
Part of
American Chemistry Council v. EPA

About this case

Filing year
2009
Status
Order issued dismissing six petitions and continuing to hold two petitions in abeyance.
Geography
🇺🇸 United States → District of Columbia
Docket number
09-1325
Court/admin entity
United States → United States Federal Courts → United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (D.C. Cir.)
Case category
Federal Statutory Claims (US) → Clean Air Act (US) → Industry Lawsuits (US) → GHG Reporting Rule (US)
Principal law
United States → Clean Air Act (CAA)
At issue
Challenge to EPA’s reporting rule for greenhouse gas sources.
Topics
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Documents

Filing Date
Document
Type
Topics 
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03/08/2011
Order issued dismissing six petitions and continuing to hold two petitions in abeyance.
Decision
02/03/2011
Order issued granting motions to intervene.
Decision
01/30/2011
Joint motion to deconsolidate, docket, and dismiss certain petitions for review, and continue to hold certain petitions in abeyance pending settlement discussions.
After EPA fully implemented the settlements, the parties in the consolidated actions moved for deconsolidation and dismissal of six of the petitions. The parties requested that Kinder Morgan's petition continue to be held in abeyance and that the remaining issue in Utility Air Regulatory Group's petition be severed and placed in a separate docket.
Motion
07/20/2010
Settlement reached.
The parties settled the lawsuit, whereby EPA agreed to make changes to monitoring and reporting requirements sought by the petitioners for emissions from fluorinated GHG production.
Settlement Agreement

Summary

Challenge to EPA’s reporting rule for greenhouse gas sources.

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Group
Topics
Risk
Fossil fuel
Greenhouse gas
Economic sector
Finance