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Oral argument — Hall Street Associates v. Mattel, Inc.

Oral argument · Oral argument · Jul 25, 2006

The Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act regulate pollutants that are emitted in our industrial society to contaminate the environment. … Everybody agrees that Hall Street did not test the water for a period of many years in violation of the Oregon Drinking Water Quality Act.

Oral argument — Nolan v. Heald College

Oral argument · Oral argument · Nov 20, 2008

Well, I guess that smog raises an additional issue, Your Honor, because this is not a Clean Air Act permit. I understand that. … And then finally, with respect to whether this is a Clean Air Act permit or Clean Air Act permits have to be issued and so forth for this, it's very clear under NEPA that the core in evaluating this permit

Oral argument — TX Medical Association v. HHS

Oral argument · Oral argument · Sep 24, 2025

May it please the Court, Stephen Shackelford for LifeNet and East Texas Air One, arguing on behalf of all the air ambulance plaintiffs. … I appreciate them, but I'm hopeful that we don't all need an air ambulance in our lives. Most of us, God willing, will not need an air ambulance.

Oral argument — SAS International, Ltd. v. General Star Indemnity Company

Oral argument · Oral argument · Dec 9, 2021

First, SAS suffered direct physical damage to property during the policy period. … It is not easily cleaned. These are intensely factual questions.

Oral argument — Travis Dardar v. FERC

Oral argument · Oral argument · Mar 24, 2026

And as this court held in Healthy Gulf, projects may have air pollution impacts that are pertinent to FERC's natural gas determinations, even if those projects do not violate the Clean Air Act. … And this is under the Clean Air Act, which is the act that's designed to protect our clean air.

Oral argument — Sierra Club v. EPA

Oral argument · Oral argument · Sep 22, 2020

Congress amended the Clean Air Act in 1990 to create a comprehensive program for driving attainment of ozone standards. … And the third reason is overall when Congress amended the Clean Air Act in 1990, it did so in order to curb flexibility.

Oral argument — PDR Network, LLC v. Carlton & Harris Chiropractic, Inc.

Oral argument · Oral argument · Mar 25, 2019

We have statutes that allow pre-enforcement review and explicitly bar review in the enforcement proceeding, Clean Air Act. And here the statute's silent. … So that would present a difficult question under 703 on which we haven't taken a position, and the reason is, of course, this is implicated in a lot of, you know, the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, a

Oral argument — WildEarth Guardians v. Gina McCarthy

Oral argument · Oral argument · Oct 10, 2014

Whitman case describes this, for example, with respect to the Clean Water Act. … Some pieces of the Clean Air Act depend on whether an area is in an attainment area or not. I'd also like to address the Our Children's Earth case.

Oral argument — Wild Equity Institute v. USEPA

Oral argument · Oral argument · Feb 14, 2017

It's a section of the Clean Air Act that relates to the notice of supplemental authority filed last week by EPA related to whether EPA has approved the state implementation plan of the Bay Area Air District … So if the Clean Air Act says that if it's a final action by the Administrator of EPA, it has to be reviewed in the Court of Appeals directly with a petition for review.

Oral argument — Dan River Basin Association v. Virginia Department of Environmental Quality

Oral argument · Oral argument · Apr 28, 2026

of states under the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, and the Coastal Zone Management Act. … But here the state is acting pursuant to its Clean Water Act authority, and that's what I take the court to have said about preemption.

Oral argument — Gulf Restoration Network v. Gina McCarthy

Oral argument · Oral argument · Dec 4, 2014

It's happened roughly in the 40 years of the Clean Water Act about 10 times. … You can look at Section 101 of the Clean Water Act, which defines what the goals of water quality standards have to be, and then the Clean Water Act itself in Section 303, which actually begins with the

Oral argument — State of Texas v. EPA

Oral argument · Oral argument · Jul 7, 2022

Air Act. … Circuit's recently decided Clean Air Wisconsin case. The EPA did so again here.

Oral argument — East Fork Enterprises v. EPA

Oral argument · Oral argument · Jun 3, 2025

How does EPA regulate methylene chloride under the Clean Air Act? There's a NESHAP, National Emission Standard for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Methylene Chloride. So what does that require? … Air Act regulations?

Oral argument — California Communities Against Toxics v. Environmental Protection Agency

Oral argument · Oral argument · Apr 1, 2019

statutory purpose of the Clean Air Act. … Air Act, that this interpretation is consistent with the Clean Air Act.

Oral argument — Sierra Club v. EPA

Oral argument · Oral argument · Nov 9, 2017

Air Act for hazardous air pollutants. … It's a Clean Water Act case, but it discusses the term ample margin of safety and contrasts it to what an adequate margin of safety is in other parts of the Clean Air Act.

Oral argument — Natural Resources Defense Coun v. EPA

Oral argument · Oral argument · Nov 4, 2010

And we are here today to ask this court to enforce the right of these members under Section 107A of the Clean Air Act to an implementation plan that will attain the National Ambient Air Quality Standard … Air Act.

Oral argument — Berkshire Environmental Action v. Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company

Oral argument · Oral argument · Jan 10, 2017

But it's important to look at the full statutory language in the Clean Water Act. This is 1341. … or comments after the expiration of the one-year period, the federal agency can, isn't required to, but can consider those in its discretion.

Oral argument — Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA

Oral argument · Oral argument · Feb 24, 2014

And air quality in each region is Clean Air Act language for that subset of air pollution problems that have regionally defined effects on the air that people breathe. How does this differ? … But EPA has refused to carry over that definition throughout the Clean Air Act when the term air pollutant appears in at least three different places.

Oral argument — Natl' Assoc. for Surface Finis v. EPA

Oral argument · Oral argument · Dec 3, 2014

Now, despite petitioner's challenges, that rule is valid and it's a reasonable exercise of EPA's Clean Air Act authority. … Air Act embraced.

Oral argument — AIR v. USEPA

Oral argument · Oral argument · Feb 10, 2015

So I would hate to see a section like that just basically get written out of the act. As to authority, the Clean Air Act says the state presents an assurance of adequate authority. … To do that, we might as well not have the section in the Clean Air Act that says the state gives assurances.