STATE OF CONN. v. E.P.A.

Dockets 81-4217, 81-4228, Nos. 5, 13.

696 F.2d 147 (1982)

STATE OF CONNECTICUT, Petitioner, v. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, Anne M. Gorsuch, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency, Respondents, and Long Island Lighting Company, Inc., Intervenor. The CONNECTICUT FUND FOR THE ENVIRONMENT, INC., Petitioner, v. Anne M. GORSUCH, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency, and Environmental Protection Agency, Respondents, and Long Island Lighting Company, Inc., Intervenor.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided December 1, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth N. Tedford, Asst. Atty. Gen., Hartford, Conn. (Carl R. Ajello, Atty. Gen., Robert A. Whitehead, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Hartford, Conn., of counsel), for petitioner State of Conn.

Suzanne Y. Langille, New Haven, Conn. (The Connecticut Fund for the Environment, Inc., Daniel Millstone, New Haven, Conn., of counsel), for petitioner The Connecticut Fund for the Environment, Inc.

Diane L. Donley, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C. (Carol E. Dinkins, Asst. Atty. Gen., Dept. of Justice, Donald W. Stever, Jr., Dept. of Justice, Catherine Cotter, Environmental Protection Agency, Robert M. Perry, Gen. Counsel, EPA, Lydia M. Wegman, Acting Asst. Gen. Counsel, EPA, Washington, D.C., of counsel), for respondents.

Maida Oringher Lerner, Washington, D.C. (Calvin R. Rafuse, Jr., Asst. Gen. Counsel, Long Island Lighting Company, Mineola, N.Y., of counsel), for intervenor Long Island Lighting Co.

Before FEINBERG, Chief Judge, and FRIENDLY and KAUFMAN, Circuit Judges.


IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge:

These challenges to a final ruling of the Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA" or "Agency") call upon us to steer a course through the labyrinth that is the Clean Air Act.1 Few statutes present more complex problems for the nation's courts than this 120-page treatise designed to safeguard our precious air resources. And, fewer are more important. Indeed, in...

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