STATE OF CAL. v. KLEPPE

Nos. 78-2363, 78-2617, 78-2922, 78-1932 and 78-2277.

604 F.2d 1187 (1979)

STATE OF CALIFORNIA and the California Coastal Zone Conservation Commission, an agency of the State of California, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Thomas S. KLEPPE, Secy. of Dept. Interior, etc., et al., Defendants, and Exxon Corporation, Defendant-Appellant. STATE OF CALIFORNIA, etc., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Thomas S. KLEPPE, etc., et al., Defendants, and Chevron U. S. A., Inc., Defendant-Appellant. STATE OF CALIFORNIA, etc., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Thomas S. KLEPPE, etc., et al., Defendants, and Shell Oil Company, Defendant-Appellant. EXXON CORPORATION, Petitioner, v. The U. S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA), etc.; Douglas M. Costle, etc.; and Barbara Blum, etc., Respondents. CHEVRON U. S. A., INC., Petitioner, v. U. S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA), etc.; Douglas M. Costle, etc.; and Barbara Blum, etc., Respondents.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

August 20, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bryant C. Danner, Latham & Watkins, Los Angeles, Cal., on brief, for defendant-appellant; Philip K. Verleger, McCutchen, Black, Verleger & Shea, Los Angeles, Cal., Noble K. Gregory C. Douglas Floyd, Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, San Francisco, Cal., argued.

Angus MacBeth, Chief Pollution Control Section, Patrick J. Cafferty, Jr., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C. (argued), on brief, for plaintiffs-appellees; Donatas Januta, Deputy Atty. Gen., San Francisco, Cal., argued.

Before BROWNING and WALLACE, Circuit Judges, and BLUMENFELD, District Judge.


WALLACE, Circuit Judge:

Exxon Corporation, Shell Oil Company, and Chevron U.S.A., Inc. (the oil companies) appeal from a district court ruling that it was without jurisdiction to review a determination of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that portions of the Clean Air Act (CAA), as amended, 42 U.S.C.A. §§ 7401 et seq. (West Supp.1979), should apply to certain activities on the Outer Continental...

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