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Oral argument — Port Arthur Cmty Actn Netwk v. TCEQ

Oral argument · Oral argument · Aug 9, 2023

Point number one is that this proposed Port Arthur liquefied natural gas plant, Port Arthur LNG, is a major source of air pollution as defined under the Federal Clean Air Act. … TCEQ applies BACT to all air permits in Texas, not just major sources. This differs from the Clean Air Act, which doesn't require that minor sources apply BACT.

Oral argument — Pacific Merchant Shipping Asso v. James Goldstene

Oral argument · Oral argument · Dec 9, 2010

They could have done it in the Clean Air Act. They did not. They could have done it in the Submerged Lands Act. They did not. … This Court has held that in the field of environmental regulation, unlike the field of ship design standards, the Clean Water Act dictates in favor of not requiring uniformity.

Oral argument — People v. Pulido

Oral argument · Oral argument · May 10, 2017

If it was really clean conditions, I'm sorry, you were about to ask a question. … What we need to pay attention to here is not just the free air sniff, but the prolongation after the free air sniff.

Oral argument — Ronald Leo v. Jeld-Wen, Incorporated

Oral argument · Oral argument · Sep 1, 2020

Those air separate claims. … Well, later on, you find that there is a defect in the air bags. Well, the failure to bring a claim on your brakes does not affect your claim having to do with the air bags.

Oral argument — Mayor and City Council of Balt v. BP P.L.C.

Oral argument · Oral argument · Dec 11, 2019

We do have a preemption argument, Your Honor, but that relates to the Clean Air Act. … These cases are no more about emissions or regulation of emissions under the Clean Air Act or otherwise than are cases about opioids, about FDA approval of pain medication.

Oral argument — TEG-Paradigm Environmental v. United States

Oral argument · Oral argument · Jul 13, 2006

It's asbestos-containing materials that have been applied to surfaces need to be cleaned. … Here's the inspector's comment. He arrived on the site, the previous inspector. He informs me that the rules of the visuals will change.

Oral argument — United States v. Velarde

Oral argument · Oral argument · May 14, 2021

But after I talked to Hinojosa, and after he came clean with me, he gave me more information that I never knew before as well. … Air Force career.

Oral argument — Detroit International Bridge v. Government of Canada

Oral argument · Oral argument · Sep 14, 2017

So, for example, when it's not like the Clean Air Act, the action of Whitman, which was really broad-reaching with wide impacts. When it's a narrow statute. … I'm not finding the quote, but it goes on to say, you know, the Clean Air Act, this issue at Whitman was very broad-reaching.

Oral argument — City of Sausalito v. O'Neill

Oral argument · Oral argument · Nov 3, 2003

I do recall that there are cases, for example, there's a city is a party within the meaning of a citizen suit provision under the Clean Air Act. … The citizen suit provisions of all three acts, the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, and the Endangered Species Act are virtually identical.

Oral argument — City of DuQuoin v. Estate of Day

Oral argument · Oral argument · May 5, 2011

Plus, you also have to have evidence that either the taxes weren't paid for a period of two years or the water bills weren't paid for a period of two years, and they did not have that. … Judge Watson, you asked, did they get time for her to clean this up? You betcha they did. They gave her 60 days after this judgment, and guess what?

Oral argument — S Texas Environmental Justice v. TCEQ

Oral argument · Oral argument · Nov 3, 2025

Air Act, including protection of the public's health and physical property. … This is National Environmental Policy Act. This is NEPA. This is not an air permitting review. That is up to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

Oral argument — Our Children's Earth Foundation

Oral argument · Oral argument · Feb 13, 2007

And there's specific Clean Water Act provisions that require EPA to periodically identify and identify any available technology control measures which could eliminate pollutants for effluent guidelines … They did it in other provisions of the Clean Water Act, in the Clean Air Act, in other environmental statutes. They did not do that here.

Oral argument — Placer v. Beentjess

Oral argument · Oral argument · Apr 12, 2004

They want to participate because they want clean air in their county, and the State is saying there's an air pollution control district, it's in your area, you are going to be part of it. … It just couldn't administer the Clean Air Act for the county?

Oral argument — Jerry Hoang v. Bank of America, N.A.

Oral argument · Oral argument · Oct 12, 2018

By plenary, I just simply mean it's like the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act. It dominates the field of that particular subject matter. Okay. … Or can they go for any statute, like a contract statute, or even one I suggested out of clean air, the quiet title action? Let me take those questions in turn, Your Honor.

Oral argument — Save The Colorado v. Spellmon

Oral argument · Oral argument · May 18, 2022

But on, I mean, you have several claims under the Clean Air Act, or the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act in NEPA, and on the NEPA claim, with regard to the NEPA claim, and to some extent under … That will never be true with the interplay of the Clean Water Act and the Federal Power Act, because the Corps of Engineers does not act in response to a request from FERC.

Oral argument — Estate of Betty Goldberg v. Goss-Jewett Co.

Oral argument · Oral argument · Mar 7, 2018

Are the chemicals from the dry cleaning still on the property? Yeah, just to clarify, it's not from a dry cleaning plant. It was from a chemical supply company that supplied dry cleaners. … But again, that presumption applies particularly strongly where the government is acting to protect everybody's interests.

Oral argument — Murray v. UBS Securities, LLC

Oral argument · Oral argument · Oct 10, 2023

Could you address in the hypothetical where the employer is grateful for the information, cleans house, and the customer leaves. So it's not cleaning house within the employer. … Period. Period. Would period be okay there? Would that be okay there? Period would be okay with us there. You probably need a little more. Can I ask you one more on that? Go ahead.

Oral argument — Lee Sommerville v. Union Carbide Corporation

Oral argument · Oral argument · Jan 29, 2025

Turning to the standing issue, I want to start with a comment that my friend, Mr. … But really, you want to know how much you put in the air, because that stuff is bad for you.

Oral argument — United States v. George Martinez

Oral argument · Oral argument · Aug 2, 2017

But in the end, it was a very clean car. Yes. … What other than the free air sniff that was negative?

Oral argument — et al Murray Energy Corp v. EPA

Oral argument · Oral argument · Dec 8, 2015

The Clean Air Act clearly indicates that national rules should be subject to initial review in the circuit court, precisely because they're national rules. … It departed from that approach in the Clean Air Act where it said that all national rules belong in the circuits immediately.