Respondents Brief — West Virginia, et al., Petitioners v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al.

No. 20-1530

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----•---STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA, ETAL.,

Petitioners,

V.

U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGE NCY

AND MICHAEL REGAN, ADMINISTRATOR OF THE

U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY,

Respondents.

----•---On Pet ition For Writ Of Certiorari

To The United Stat e s Court Of Appeals

For The District Of Columbia Circuit

----•---RESPONDENT BASIN ELECTRIC POWER COOPERATIVE’S

CERTIFICATE OF SERVIVE

As required by Supreme Court Rule 29.5 and the April 15, 2020 Order of this

Court, I hereby certify that the Brief of Respondent Basin Electric Power

Cooperative in Support of Petition for Writ of Certiorari in West Virginia v. U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency, No. 20-1530, was Served via electronic mail on all

parties required, with paper copies provided by commercial common carrier upon

request:

Elizabeth B. Prelogar

Acting Solicitor General

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Washington, D.C. 20530-0001

(202) 514-2217

supremectbriefs@usdoj.gov

Benjamin Carlisle Meghan Greenfield

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL

RESOURCES DIVISION

PO Box 7611, Ben Franklin Station

Washington, DC 20044-7415

(202) 514-9771

benjamin.carlisle@usdoj.gov

meghan.greenfield@usdoj.gov

Counsel for U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency and Michael Regan,

Administrator of the U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency

Counsel for U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency and Michael Regan,

Administrator of the U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency

PATRICK MORRISEY

Attorney General

LINDSAY S. SEE

Solicitor General, Counsel of Record

OFFICE OF THEWEST VIRGINIA

ATTORNEY GENERAL

State Capitol Complex

Building 1, Room E-26

Charleston, WV 25305

lindsay.s.see@wvago.gov

(304) 558-2021

David Michael Flannery

Amy M. Smith

STEPTOE & JOHNSON PLLC

P.O. Box 1588 Charleston, WV 25326

(304) 353-8000

dave.flannery@steptoe-johnson.com

Amy.Smith@steptoe-johnson.com

Counsel for AEP Generating

Company, AEP Generation

Resources Inc., Appalachian Power

Company, Indiana Michigan Power

Company, Kentucky Power

Company, Public Service Company

of Oklahoma, Southwestern Electric

Power Company, Wheeling Power

Company, Indiana Energy

Association, and Indiana Utility

Group

Counsel for Petitioner State of West

Virginia

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Elbert Lin

F. William Brownell

HUNTON ANDREWS KURTH LLP

Riverfront Plaza, East Tower

951 East Byrd Street

Richmond, VA 23219

(804) 788-7202

ELin@hunton.com

bbrownell@HuntonAK.com

Scott Allen Keller

Jeremy Evan Maltz

LEHOTSKY KELLER

200 Massachusetts Ave. NW

Washington, DC 20001

scott@lehotskykeller.com

jeremy@lehotskykeller.com

Counsel for Chamber of Commerce of

the United States of America

Counsel for America’s Power

John David Lazzaretti

John A. Rego

SQUIRE PATTON BOGGS (US) LLP

4900 Key Tower

127 Public Square

Cleveland, OH 44114-1304

(216) 479-8350

john.lazzaretti@squirepb.com

jrego@beneschlaw.com

Carroll Wade McGuffey, III

TROUTMAN PEPPER HAMILTON

SANDERS LLP

600 Peachtree Street, NE Suite 3000

Atlanta, GA 30308-2216

(404) 885-3698

mack.mcguffey@troutman.com

Counsel for National Mining

Association

Counsel for Murray Energy Corporation

Thomas Allen Lorenzen

CROWELL & MORING LLP

1001 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20004-2595

(202) 624-2789

tlorenzen@crowell.com

Mark W. DeLaquil

BAKER & HOSTETLER LLP

Washington Square

1050 Connecticut Avenue, NW

Suite 1100

Washington, DC 20036-5304

(202) 861-1500

mdelaquil@bakerlaw.com

Counsel for National Rural Electric

Cooperative Association

Counsel for Westmoreland Mining

Holdings LLC

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Joseph Anthony Sclafani

OFFICE OF MISSISSIPPI GOVERNOR

PHIL BRYANT

PO Box 139

Jackson, MS 39205

(601) 576-2807

Joseph.Sclafani@govreeves.ms.gov

Angela Jean Levin

TROUTMAN PEPPER HAMILTON

SANDERS LLP

Three Embarcadero Center, Suite 800

San Francisco, CA 94111

(415) 477-5700

angela.levin@troutmansanders.com

Counsel for Phil Bryant, Governor of the

State of Mississippi

Counsel for Georgia Power Company

William Daniel Booth

MICHAEL BEST & FRIEDRICH, LLP

1000 Maine Avenue, SW, Suite 400

Washington, DC 20024

(202) 747-9658

wdbooth@michaelbest.com

Michael A. Zody

Jacob Santini

PARSONS BEHLE & LATIMER

201 South Main Street

Suite 1800

Salt Lake City, UT 84111

(801) 532-1234

mzody@parsonsbehle.com

jsantini@parsonsbehle.com

Counsel for Mississippi Public Service

Commission

Counsel for Nevada Gold Mines LLC

and Nevada Gold Energy LLC

Yaakov M. Roth

Stephen J. Petrany

JONES DAY

51 Louisiana Ave., NW

Washington, D.C. 20001

(202) 879-3939

yroth@jonesday.com

C. Grady Moore, III

BALCH & BINGHAM LLP

1901 6th Avenue North, Suite 1500

Birmingham, AL 35201

(205) 251-8100

gmoore@balch.com

Counsel for Powersouth Energy

Cooperative

Counsel for North American Coal

Corporation

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Edmund Gerard LaCour, Jr.

OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY

GENERAL

501 Washington Avenue

Montgomery, AL 36130

(334) 353-2196

elacour@ago.state.al.us

Treg R. Taylor

OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY

GENERAL

1031 West 4th Avenue, Suite 200

Anchorage, AK 99501

(907) 269-5200

attorney.general@alaska.gov

Counsel for State of Alabama

Counsel for State of Alaska

Nicholas J. Bronni

OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY

GENERAL

323 Center Street, Suite 200

Little Rock, AR 72201

(501) 682-6302

nicholas.bronni@arkansasag.gov

Andrew Pinson

STATE OF GEORGIA

DEPARTMENT OF LAW

40 Capitol Square, SW

Atlanta, GA 30334-1300

(404) 458-3409

apinson@law.ga.gov

Counsel for State of Arkansas

Counsel for State of Georgia

Thomas M. Fisher

OFFICE OF THE INDIANA

ATTORNEY GENERAL

Indiana Government Center South

302 West Washington Street, 5th Floor

Indianapolis, IN 46204

(317) 234-6843

tom.fisher@atg.in.gov

Jeffrey Allyn Chanay

OFFICE OF THE KANSAS

ATTORNEY GENERAL

120 SW 10th Avenue, 2nd Floor

Topeka, KS 66612

(785) 296-2215

jeff.chanay@ag.ks.gov

Counsel for State of Kansas

Counsel for State of Indiana

Steven Travis Mayo

OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY

GENERAL

700 Capitol Avenue, Suite 106

Frankfort, KY 40601

(502) 564-2611

travis.mayo@ky.gov

Elizabeth Baker Murrill

LOUISIANA ATTORNEY GENERAL

PO Box 94005

Baton Rouge, LA 70804

(225) 326-6766

murrille@ag.louisiana.gov

Counsel for State of Louisiana

Counsel for State of Kentucky, by and

through Governor Matthew G. Bevin

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Dean John Sauer

OFFICE OF THE MISSOURI

ATTORNEY GENERAL

PO Box 899

Jefferson City, MO 65102

(573) 751-8807

john.sauer@ago.mo.gov

Jeremiah Langston

OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY

GENERAL

Justice Building

215 North Sanders

Helena, MT 59620-1401

(406) 444-7008

jeremiah.langston@mt.gov

Counsel for State of Missouri

Counsel for State of Montana

Justin D. Lavene

OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY

GENERAL

2115 State Capitol

PO Box 98920

Lincoln, NE 68509-8920

(402) 471-2064

justin.lavene@nebraska.gov

Paul Martin Seby

GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP

1144 15th Street, Suite 3300

Denver, CO 80202

(303) 572-6584

sebyp@gtlaw.com

Counsel for State of North Dakota

Counsel for State of Nebraska

Benjamin Michael Flowers

OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY

GENERAL

30 East Broad Street, 17th Floor

Columbus, OH 43215-3428

(614) 728-7511

benjamin.flowers@ohioattorneygeneral.g

ov

Counsel for State of Ohio

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Mithun Mansinghani

OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY

GENERAL

313 N.E. 21st Street

Oklahoma City, OK 73105 (405) 5224392

mithun.mansinghani@oag.ok.gov

Counsel for State of Oklahoma

James Emory Smith, Jr.

OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY

GENERAL PO Box 11549

Columbia, SC 29211

(803) 734-3680

esmith@scag.gov

Steven Robert Blair

OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY

GENERAL

1302 East Highway 14, Suite 1

Pierre, SD 57501-8501

(605) 773-3215

steven.blair@state.sd.us

Counsel for State of South Carolina

Counsel for State of South Dakota

Judd Edward Stone II

OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY

GENERAL

P.O. Box 12548

Austin, TX 78711-2548 (512) 936-1700

judd.stone@oag.texas.gov

Melissa Ann Holyoak

Tyler Richard Green

UTAH STATE CAPITOL COMPLEX

350 North State Street, Suite 230

Salt Lake City, UT 84114-2320

(801) 538-9600

melissaholyoak@agutah.gov

tyler@consovoymccarthy.com

Counsel for State of Texas

Counsel for State of Utah

James Kaste

OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY

GENERAL

2320 Capitol Avenue

Cheyenne, WY 82002

(307) 777-6946

james.kaste@wyo.gov

Elizabeth Jones

CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL

DIVERSITY

660 S. Figueroa Street, Suite 1000

Los Angeles, CA 90017

(213) 785-5400

ljones@biologicaldiversity.org

Counsel for State of Wyoming

Counsel for Center for Biological

Diversity

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James P. Duffy

Ann Brewster Weeks

CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE

114 State Street, 6th Floor

Boston, MA 02109

(617) 359-4077

jduffy@catf.us

aweeks@catf.us

Kristin Merritt Bronson

CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER

1437 Bannock Street, Suite 353

Denver, CO 80202

(720) 865-8600

kristin.bronson@denvergov.org

Counsel for City and County of Denver

Colorado

Counsel for American Lung Association,

American Public Health Association,

Appalachian Mountain Club, Clean Air

Council, Clean Wisconsin, Conservation

Law Foundation, and Minnesota Center

for Environmental Advocacy

Brittany E. Wright

CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION

6 Herndon Avenue

Annapolis, MD 21403

(443) 482-2077

bwright@cbf.org

Benna Ruth Solomon

CORPORATION COUNSEL OF

THE CITY OF CHICAGO,

APPEALS DIVISION

30 North LaSalle Street, Suite 800

Chicago, IL 60602

(312) 744-7764

benna.solomon@cityofchicago.org

Counsel for Chesapeake Bay

Foundation, Inc.

Counsel for City of Chicago

Debra S. Kalish

Tom Carr

CITY ATTORNEY’S OFFICE

1777 Broadway, 2nd Floor

Boulder, CO 80302

(303) 441-3092

kalishd@bouldercolorado.gov

carrt@bouldercolorado.gov

Christopher Gene King

NEW YORK CITY LAW

DEPARTMENT

100 Church Street New York, NY

10007 (212) 788-1235

cking@law.nyc.gov

Counsel for City of New York

Counsel for City of Boulder

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Michael James Bostrom

LOS ANGELES CITY ATTORNEY’S

OFFICE

AFFIRMATIVE LITIGATION

DIVISION

200 N. Spring Street, 14th Floor

Los Angeles, CA 90012

(213) 978-1882

michael.bostrom@lacity.org

Thomas Frank Pepe

PEPE & NEMIRE, LLC

1450 Madruga Avenue, Suite 202

Coral Gables, FL 33146

(305) 667-2564

thomaspepe@pepenemire.com

Counsel for City of South Miami

Counsel for City of Los Angeles

Scott Schwarz

CITY OF PHILADELPHIA LAW

DEPARTMENT

One Parkway Building

1515 Arch Street

Philadelphia, PA 19102-1595

(215) 683-5170

scott.schwarz@phila.gov

Aimee Diane Thomson

OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY

GENERAL

1600 Arch Street, Suite 300

Philadelphia, PA 19103

(267) 940-6696

athomson@attorneygeneral.gov

Counsel for Commonwealth of

Pennsylvania

Counsel for City of Philadelphia

Christophe Gagnon Courchesne

David S. Frankel

MASSACHUSETTS OFFICE OF THE

ATTORNEY GENERAL

One Ashburton Place

Boston, MA 02108

(617) 963-2423

christophe.courchesne@state.ma.us

david.frankel@mass.gov

Karl A. Racine

Loren L. AliKhan

OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY

GENERAL

400 6th Street, NW, Suite 8100

Washington, DC 20001

(202) 727-3400

Loren.AliKhan@dc.gov

Counsel for District of Columbia

Counsel for Commonwealth of

Massachusetts

9

Mark R. Herring

ATTORNEY GENERAL

Paul Kugelman, Jr.

OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY

GENERAL

202 North 9th Street

Richmond, VA 23219

(804) 786-3811

pkugelman@oag.state.va.us

service@oag.state.va.us

Howard Learner

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & POLICY

CENTER

35 E. Wacker Drive, Suite 1600

Chicago, IL 60601

(312) 673-6500

hlearner@elpc.org

Counsel for Environmental Law and

Policy Center

Counsel for Commonwealth of Virginia

Sean H. Donahue

DONAHUE, GOLDBERG &

WEAVER, LLP

1008 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE

Washington, DC 20003

(202) 277-7085

sean@donahuegoldberg.com

Joanne Marie Spalding

SIERRA CLUB

2101 Webster Street, Suite 1300

Oakland, CA 94612

(415) 977-5725

joanne.spalding@sierraclub.org

Counsel for Sierra Club

Counsel for Environmental Defense

Fund

Melissa Joy Lynch

David D. Doniger

NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE

COUNCIL

1152 15th Street, NW, Suite 300

Washington, DC 20005

(202) 717-8296

llynch@nrdc.org

ddoniger@nrdc.org

Eric Olson

OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY

GENERAL

1300 Broadway

Denver, CO 80203

(720) 508-6548

eric.olson@coag.gov

Counsel for State of Colorado

Counsel for Natural Resources Defense

Council

10

Timothy Eugene Sullivan

Robert William Byrne

OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY

GENERAL

1515 Clay Street, PO Box 70550

Oakland, CA 94612-0550

(510) 622-4038

timothy.sullivan@doj.ca.gov

Robert.Byrne@doj.ca.gov

Valerie Melissa Edge

DELAWARE DEPARTMENT OF

JUSTICE

102 West Water Street

Dover, DE 19904

(302) 257-3219

valerie.edge@delaware.gov

Counsel for State of Delaware

Counsel for State of California

Scott Norman Koschwitz

Matthew Ivan Levine

OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY

GENERAL

165 Capitol Avenue

Hartford, CT 06106

(860) 808-5250

scott.koschwitz@ct.gov

matthew.levine@ct.gov

Daniel Isaac Rottenberg

OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY

GENERAL, ENVIRONMENTAL

BUREAU

69 West Washington Street, Suite 1800

Chicago, IL 60602

(312) 814-3816

drottenberg@atg.state.il.us

Counsel for State of Illinois

Counsel for State of Connecticut

William F. Cooper

STATE OF HAWAII DEPARTMENT

OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

425 Queen Street

Honolulu, HI 96813

(808) 586-1282

Bill.F.Cooper@Hawaii.gov

John B. Howard, Jr.

Joshua Segal

OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY

GENERAL

200 St. Paul Place

Baltimore, MD 21202-2021

(410) 576-6970

jbhoward@oag.state.md.us

jsegal@oag.state.md.us

Counsel for State of Hawaii

Counsel for State of Maryland

11

Laura Jensen

OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY

GENERAL

6 State House Station

Augusta, ME 04333-0006

(207) 626-8868

laura.jensen@maine.gov

Peter Surdo

OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY

GENERAL

Town Square Tower 445 Minnesota

Street

St. Paul, MN 55101-2127

(651) 757-1061

peter.surdo@ag.state.mn.us

Counsel for State of Maine

Counsel for State of Minnesota

Gillian E. Wener

MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF

ATTORNEY GENERAL

P.O. Box 30755

Lansing, MI 48909 (517) 335-7664

wenerg@michigan.gov

Lisa Jo Morelli

OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY

GENERAL PO Box 112

Trenton, NJ 08625-0112

(609) 633-8713

lisa.morelli@dol.lps.state.nj.us

Counsel for State of Michigan and the

People of the State of Michigan

Counsel for State of New Jersey

Heidi Parry Stern

OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY

GENERAL

555 East Washington Avenue Suite

3100

Las Vegas, NV 89101

(702) 486-3594

hstern@ag.nv.gov

Michael J. Myers

Brian Murray Lusignan

Steven Wu

OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY

GENERAL

The Capitol

Albany, NY 12224-0341

(518) 776-2382

michael.myers@ag.ny.gov

Brian.Lusignan@ag.ny.gov

steven.wu@ag.ny.gov

Counsel for State of Nevada

Counsel for State of New York

12

Anne Minard

OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY

GENERAL

Villagra Building

408 Galisteo Street

Santa Fe, NM 87504 (505) 490-4045

aminard@nmag.gov

Paul Andrew Garrahan

OREGON DEPARTMENT OF

JUSTICE

1515 SW Fifth Avenue, Suite 410

Portland, OR 97201

(971) 673-1943

paul.garrahan@doj.state.or.us

Counsel for State of New Mexico

Counsel for State of Oregon

Asher Paris Spiller

OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY

GENERAL PO Box 629

Raleigh, NC 27602

(919) 716-6050

aspiller@ncdoj.gov

Nicholas Frank Persampieriz

OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY

GENERAL

109 State Street

Montpelier, VT 05609-1001

(802) 828-6902

nick.persampieri@vermont.gov

Counsel for State of North Carolina

Counsel for State of Vermont

Gregory Stage Schultz

OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY

GENERAL

150 South Main Street

Providence, RI 02903

(401) 274-4400

gschultz@riag.ri.gov

Eugene Marc Trisko

LAW OFFICES OF EUGENE M.

TRISKO PO Box 330133

Atlantic Beach, FL 32233 (304) 2581977

emtrisko7@gmail.com

Counsel for International Brotherhood

of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders,

Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers,

AFL- CIO, International Brotherhood

of Electrical Workers, AFL-CIO, and

United Mine Workers of America, AFLCIO

Counsel for State of Rhode Island

13

Christopher Huriaux Reitz

Emily C. Nelson

OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY

GENERAL PO Box 40117

Olympia, WA 98504-0117

(360) 586-4614

chris.reitz@atg.wa.gov

emily.nelson@atg.wa.gov

David Michael Williamson

WILLIAMSON LAW & POLICY

1850 M Street NW, Suite 840

Washington, DC 20036

(202) 256-6155

maxwilliamson@williamsonlawpolicy.c

om

Counsel for Biogenic CO2 Coalition

Counsel for State of Washington

Gabe Johnson-Karp

WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF

JUSTICE

17 West Main Street

PO Box 7857

Madison, WI 53707-7857

(608) 267-8904

johnsonkarpg@doj.state.wi.us

Eugene Grace

AMERICAN CLEAN POWER

ASSOCIATION

1501 M Street, NW

Washington, DC 20005

(202) 383-2500

ggrace@awea.org

Counsel for State of Wisconsin

Counsel for American Clean Power

Association

Theodore Hadzi-Antich

TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY

FOUNDATION

901 Congress Avenue

Austin, TX 78701

(512) 472-2700

tha@texaspolicy.com

Richard Umoff

SOLAR ENERGY INDUSTRIES

ASSOCIATION

600 14th Street NW, Suite 400

Washington, DC 20005

(202) 556-2877

rumoff@seia.org

Counsel for Robinson Enterprises, Inc.,

Nuckles Oil Company, Inc., doing

business as Merit Oil Company,

Construction Industry Air Quality

Coalition, Liberty Packing Company,

LLC, Dalton Trucking, Inc., Norman R.

Brown, Joanne Brown, Competitive

Enterprise Institute, Texas Public Policy

Foundation

Counsel for Solar Energy Industries

Association

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Jeffery Scott Dennis

ADVANCED ENERGY ECONOMY

1000 Vermont Avenue, NW Suite 300

Washington, DC 20005

(202) 380-1950

jdennis@aee.net

Kevin James Poloncarz

COVINGTON & BURLING LLP

Salesforce Tower

415 Mission Street, Suite 5400

San Francisco, CA 94105-2533

(415) 591-6000

kpoloncarz@cov.com

Counsel for Advanced Energy Economy

Counsel for Consolidated Edison, Inc.,

Exelon Corporation, National Grid

USA, New York Power Authority,

Power Companies Climate Coalition,

Public Service Enterprise Group

Incorporated, and Sacramento

Municipal Utility District

I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct.

Dated: June 2, 2021

______________________

Tina R. Van Bockern

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