U.S. Chamber of Commerce v. EPA

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the American Farm Bureau Federation, and Alaska filed a petition for writ of certiorari seeking to reverse the D.C. Circuit’s upholding of EPA’s 2009 endangerment finding, which serves as the basis for EPA’s regulation of GHG emissions under the Clean Air Act, and EPA’s GHG permitting program for large stationary sources. More broadly, the petition seeks review of the question of whether EPA, having identified “absurd” consequences posed by regulation of GHG under the Clean Air Act, may deem the absurdity “irrelevant” to construction of some statutory provisions and a “justification for rewriting others.”