Posted by Jonathan Adler:
Big Environmental Grant:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2006_12_31-2007_01_06.shtml#1168117311
Yesterday the Supreme Court [1]granted cert in another significant
environmental law case -- actually two combined cases, National
Association of Home Builders v. Defenders of Wildlife and EPA v.
Defenders of Wildlife -- concerning the extent to which the Endangered
Species Act (ESA) requires federal agencies to avoid actions that
could harm endangered species when such a requirement could conflict
with an agency's other statutory obligations. As Lyle Denniston
[2]notes on SCOTUSBlog:
The endangered species case grows out of a move by the state of
Arizona to take over from EPA the program of regulating permits for
discharge of pollutants under the Clean Water Act. The Court
granted both cases, and added to the review the question of whether
the EPA decision to transfer this permitting authority was wrongly
based upon inconsistent views of the Endangered Species Act and, if
so, whether the case should have been sent back to EPA for further
review.
Here is the [3]petition, [4]opp, and [5]reply brief.
References
1.
http://www.scotusblog.com/movabletype/archives/2007/01/court_to_hear_s_2.html
2.
http://www.scotusblog.com/movabletype/archives/2007/01/court_to_hear_s_2.html
3. http://www.usdoj.gov/osg/briefs/2006/2pet/7pet/2006-0549.pet.aa.html
4. http://www.scotusblog.com/movabletype/archives/06-549BIO.pdf
5. http://www.usdoj.gov/osg/briefs/2006/2pet/7pet/2006-0549.pet.rep.pdf
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