ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND, Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, National Parks and Conservation Association, State of New York, State of Connecticut, State of New Hampshire, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, State of Vermont, State of Minnesota, and State of Rhode Island, Plaintiffs,
Environmental Defense Fund, Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, National Parks and Conservation Association, State of New York, State of Connecticut, State of New Hampshire, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, State of Vermont, State of Minnesota, Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
Lee M. THOMAS, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Defendants-Appellees,
Alabama Power Company, et al., Peabody Holding Company, Inc., Peabody Coal Company, Consolidation Coal Company, American Mining Congress, Asarco Incorporated, Magma Copper Company, Intervenors-Appellees.
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Argued November 30, 1988.
Decided March 22, 1989.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
David R. Wooley, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of N.Y. (Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen. of State of N.Y., Peter H. Schiff, Deputy Sol. Gen. of New York, of counsel), James T.B. Tripp, Environmental Defense Fund, New York City (Robert E. Yuhnke, Environmental Defense Fund, Boulder, Colo., of counsel), David Hawkins, Natural Resources Defense Council, Howard Fox, Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, Washington, D.C., Hubert H. Humphrey III, Atty. Gen. of State of Minn. (Ann Seha, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., State of Minn., of counsel), Jeffrey L. Amestoy, Atty. Gen. of State of Vt. (J. Wallace Malley, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., State of Vt., of counsel), Joseph I. Lieberman, Atty. Gen. of State of Conn. (Brian Comerford, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of Conn., of counsel), Stephen Merrill, Atty. Gen. of State of N.H. (George Dana Bisbee, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of N.H., of counsel), James M. Shannon, Atty. Gen. of Comm. of Mass. (Lee Breckenridge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Comm. of Mass., of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellants.
Jacques B. Gelin, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C. (Myles E. Flint, Deputy Asst. Atty. Gen., Michael A. McCord, Robert L. Klarquist, Dept. of Justice, Gerald K. Gleason, U.S.E.P.A., Washington, D.C., of counsel), for defendants-appellees.
Henry V. Nickel, Washington, D.C. (Michael L. Teague, F. William Brownell, Norman W. Fichthorn, Hunton & Williams, Alfred V.J. Prather, Edwin H. Seeger, Kurt E. Blase, Prather Seeger Doolittle & Farmer, Washington, D.C., Michael S. Devorkin, John Jacob Rieck, Jr., Doar Devorkin & Rieck, Vincent R. FitzPatrick, Jr., Margaret Murphy, White & Case, New York City, Nancy C. Shea, James R. Bieke, Bruce C. Swartz, Shea & Gardner, Washington, D.C., of counsel), for intervenors-appellees.
Before VAN GRAAFEILAND, WINTER and MAHONEY, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
WINTER, Circuit Judge:
This appeal involves the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 7401 et seq. (1982 and Supp. IV 1986) ("the Act"), and in particular its bifurcated jurisdictional scheme for judicial review of decisionmaking by the Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA"). The Act provides that suits to compel the Administrator to perform non-discretionary duties may be brought only in district courts, while petitions...
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