Publication Date: 2018-07-30
Practice Area: Administrative Law | Environmental Law
Industry: Federal Government
Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Judge: Circuit Judge Raymond Lohier
Attorneys: For plaintiff: United States Environmental Protection Agency, Andrew R. Wheeler, in his Official Capacity as Acting Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency,* National Marine Fisheries Service, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Respondents
for defendant: For Intervenor-Petitioner American Petroleum Institute: Fredric P. Andes, Jill M. Fortney, Barnes & Thornburg LLP, Chicago, IL; Jeffrey S. Longsworth, Barnes & Thornburg LLP, Washington, DC.; For Intervenors-Petitioners Utility Water Act Group, Entergy Corporation: Andrew J. Turner, Todd S. Mikolop, Kerry L. McGrath, on the brief, Kristy A.N. Bulleit, Hunton & Williams LLP, Washington, DC.; For Intervenors-Petitioners Riverkeeper Inc., American Littoral Society, Casco Baykeeper, Delaware Riverkeeper Network, Hackensack Riverkeeper, Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., Raritan Baykeeper, Inc. d/b/a NY/NJ Baykeeper, Save the Bay — Narragansett Bay, Scenic Hudson, Inc., Sierra Club, Soundkeeper, Inc., Surfrider Foundation, Waterkeeper Alliance, Inc., and for Intervenors Center for Biological Diversity, Louisiana Environmental Action Network, California Coastkeeper Alliance, Humboldt Baykeeper, Suncoast Waterkeeper, Inc., Puget Soundkeeper Alliance: Reed W. Super, Edan Rotenberg, Super Law Group, LLC, New York, NY.; For Intervenor-Petitioner Sierra Club, and for Intervenors Center for Biological Diversity, California Coastkeeper Alliance, Humboldt Baykeeper, Louisiana Environmental Action Network, Suncoast Waterkeeper, Inc.: Eric E. Huber, Sierra Club, Boulder, CO.; For Intervenors-Petitioners Environment America, Environment Massachusetts: Charles C. Caldart, National Environmental Law Center, Seattle, WA.; For Respondents: Simi Bhat, United States Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Environmental Defense Section, Washington, DC, Clifford E. Stevens, Jr., United States Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Wildlife & Marine Resources Section, Denver, CO, on the brief; Richard T. Witt, Alexis Wade, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of General Counsel, of counsel, Perry M. Rosen, United States Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Environmental Defense Section, Washington, DC; Bridget Kennedy McNeil, United States Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Wildlife & Marine Resources Section, Denver, CO.; For Amicus Curiae Clean Air Task Force: Ann Brewster Weeks, Legal Director, Clean Air Task Force, Boston, MA, of counsel, Andrew K. Jacoby, Varadi, Hair & Checki, LLC, New Orleans, LA.
Case Number: 14-4645
Rule, Opinions as to Water Intakes Were Based on Reasonable Interpretations of Statutes