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Washington Environmental Council v. Bellon

Geography
🇺🇸 United States / Washington
Year
2011
Document Type
Litigation
Part of
Washington Environmental Council v. Bellon

About this case

Filing year
2011
Status
Court ordered the defendants to complete the RACT process within 26 months.
Geography
🇺🇸 United States → Washington
Docket number
11-cv-00417
Court/admin entity
United States → United States Federal Courts → United States District Court for the Western District of Washington (W.D. Wash.)
Case category
Federal Statutory Claims (US) → Clean Air Act (US) → Environmentalist Lawsuits (US)
Principal law
United States → Clean Air Act (CAA)
At issue
Lawsuit alleging that Washington State failed to implement provisions of the state’s state implementation plan relating to greenhouse gas emissions from oil refineries.
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Documents

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03/27/2012
Court ordered the defendants to complete the RACT process within 26 months.
Decision
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12/22/2011
Intervenor-defendant's motion for reconsideration denied.
Decision
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12/01/2011
Order issued granting plaintiff's motion for summary judgment.
Both sides moved for summary judgment.  The district court granted the plaintiffs’ motion, holding that the law was clear that the state agencies were required to establish reasonably available control technologies (RACT) for GHGs and to apply the RACT standards to oil refineries.
Decision
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03/10/2011
Complaint filed.
Two environmental nonprofit groups filed a lawsuit alleging that the Washington State Department of Ecology, Northwest Clean Air Agency, and the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency were in violation of the Clean Air Act because they failed to implement mandatory provisions of Washington’s State Implementation Plan relating to the control of GHGs from oil refineries.   The complaint alleged that four of the five companies that operate oil refineries in the state were operating under expired Title V permits, and that none of the permits contained requirements for controlling GHG emissions.
Complaint
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Summary

Lawsuit alleging that Washington State failed to implement provisions of the state’s state implementation plan relating to greenhouse gas emissions from oil refineries.

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Topics
Policy instrument
Risk
Fossil fuel
Greenhouse gas
Economic sector
Finance