North Dakota v. EPA

On January 27, 2017, a group of 17 states and seven municipalities moved to intervene as respondents.

Twenty states and state agencies, as well as utilities, utility trade groups, the National Association of Home Builders, and the coal company Murray Energy Corporation, filed petitions for review in the D.C. Circuit of Appeals to challenge EPA’s denial of petitions for reconsideration of the Clean Power Plan regulations. Notice of EPA’s denial of the petitions was <a href="https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2017-01-17/pdf/2017-00941.pdf">published</a> in the January 17, 2017 issue of the Federal Register. The petitioners said that they would show that the final regulations were in excess of EPA’s authority and were arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, and not in accordance with law. The petitions filed under docket numbers 17-1014, 17-1015, 17-1018, 17-1019, 17-1020, 17-1022, 17-1023, 17-1031, 17-1035, 17-1037, 17-1061, 17-1062, 17-1063, 17-1068, 17-1081, 17-1091, 17-1092 were consolidated in a single proceeding with the original challenges to the Clean Power Plan (Nos. 15-1363 et al.).