N.Y. PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH v. WHITMAN

Nos. 02-4033, 02-4073, 02-4075 and 02-4077.

321 F.3d 316 (2003)

NEW YORK PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Christine Todd WHITMAN, in her capacity as Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and Jane Kenny, in her capacity as Regional Administrator, Region 2, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Respondents-Appellees, State of New York and Erin Crotty, Commissioner of the New York Department of Environmental Conservation, Intervenors.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: February 27, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James B. Kobak, Jr., Hughes, Hubbard & Reed, LLP, New York, NY (Adam Brodsky, of counsel, Keri Powell, Earthjustice, Washington, D.C., on the brief), for Petitioner-Appellant.

Joshua M. Levin, Environmental Defense Section, Environmental Resources Division (Apple Chapman, Office of General Counsel, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Eileen T. McDonough, Environmental Defense Section, on the brief for Thomas L. Sansonnetti, Assistant Attorney General, Environment and Natural Resources Division), Washington, D.C., for Respondents-Appellees (02-4033).

Eileen T. McDonough, Environmental Defense Section, Environmental Resources Division (Apple Chapman, Office of General Counsel, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Joshua M. Levin, Environmental Defense Section, on the brief for Thomas L. Sansonnetti, Assistant Attorney General, Environment and Natural Resources Division), Washington, D.C., for Respondents-Appellees (02-4077). Rachel Zaffrann, Assistant Attorney General, New York State Attorney General's Office, Environmental Protection Bureau, for Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General, State of New York, New York, NY, for Intervenors.

Before: F.I. PARKER, STRAUB, and B.D. PARKER, Circuit Judges.


B.D. PARKER, JR., Circuit Judge.

These challenges by the New York Public Interest Research Group ("NYPIRG") to final decisions by the United States Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") call upon us to clarify certain aspects of federal oversight authority in the cooperative state/federal regulatory scheme established by the Clean Air Act ("CAA"), 42 U.S.C. §§ 7401-7671q. Generally speaking, we must determine whether the EPA responded appropriately after...

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