NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL, INC. v. E. P. A.

No. 72-2402.

529 F.2d 755 (1976)

NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL, INC., Project on Clean Air, Save America's Vital Environment, Inc., Janey Weber and Susanne Allstrom, Petitioners, v. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

April 2, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard E. Ayres, Washington, D. C., Ogden Doremus, Savannah, Ga., for petitioners.

Kent Frizzell, Asst. Atty. Gen., Edmund B. Clark, John D. Helm, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Charles W. Shipley, Pollution Control Section, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for respondent.

Joe Resweber, County Atty., Harris County, Charles J. Wilson, Asst. County Atty., Houston, Tex., for Harris County amicus curiae.

Arthur K. Bolton, Atty. Gen., Robert S. Stubbs, II, Don A. Langham, Robert S. Bomar, Robert E. Hall, Atlanta, Ga., for intervenors.

Before WISDOM, DYER and INGRAHAM, Circuit Judges.


WISDOM, Circuit Judge:

The Clean Air Amendments of 19701 established a national program of air pollution control administered jointly by the states and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). A realistic approach to the problem of effective enforcement of that statute by reduction of air pollution compels recognition of the fact that national air quality standards cannot be attained except...

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