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Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. Wheeler

Geography
🇺🇸 United States / District of Columbia
Year
2020
Document Type
Litigation
Part of
Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. Wheeler

About this case

Filing year
2020
Status
Unopposed motion for 30-day abeyance granted and revised briefing schedule set.
Geography
🇺🇸 United States → District of Columbia
Docket number
20-1150
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) → Environmentalist Lawsuits (US)
Principal law
United States → Clean Air Act (CAA)
At issue
Challenge to revisions to the Refrigerant Management Program’s 2016 extension to substitute refrigerants (originally consolidated with industry challenge to 2016 rule (Nos. 17-1016 and 17-1017)).
Topics
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Documents

Filing Date
Document
Type
Topics 
Beta
05/09/2022
Unopposed motion for 30-day abeyance granted and revised briefing schedule set.
Decision
03/22/2021
Unopposed motion for 90-day abeyance filed.
Decision
03/18/2021
Unopposed motion for 90-day abeyance filed by EPA.
Motion
11/25/2020
Joint unopposed motion filed by petitioner NRDC, state and municipal petitioners, and respondents EPA and Administrator Wheeler to amend briefing format.
Motion
10/16/2020
Opening brief filed by petitioner NRDC and state and municipal petitioners.
Brief
06/30/2020
Motion filed by EPA to consolidate with National Environmental Development Association’s Clean Air Project v. EPA, No. 17-1016.
Motion
05/11/2020
Petition for review filed.
Eleven states, two cities, and Natural Resources Defense Council filed petitions seeking review of EPA’s final rule titled “Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Revisions to the Refrigerant Management Program’s Extension to Substitutes.” The final rule revised 2016 regulations that extended refrigerant management regulations for refrigerants containing ozone-depleting substances to substitute refrigerants such as hydrofluorocarbons, which are greenhouse gases. The revised regulations limit leak repair and appliance maintenance requirements to ozone-depleting substances. Two consolidated cases challenging the 2016 regulations have been held in abeyance since April 2017.
Petition

Summary

Challenge to revisions to the Refrigerant Management Program’s 2016 extension to substitute refrigerants (originally consolidated with industry challenge to 2016 rule (Nos. 17-1016 and 17-1017)).

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Group
Topics
Policy instrument
Risk
Impacted group
Fossil fuel
Greenhouse gas
Economic sector
Adaptation/resilience
Finance