The court of appeals granted a petition for review of an order of the Environmental Protection Agency and remanded. The court held that the agency’s failure to evaluate in any way the adequacy of an existing state implementation plan pursuant to the Clean Air Act in light of a revised attainment demonstration submitted by the state was arbitrary and capricious.
In 1994, pursuant to the Clean Air Act (CAA), California submitted a state implementation plan (SIP) revision that included an ozone attainment demonstration for a specified non-attainment area and a pesticide element that was designed to reduce emissions from pesticide applications.
