NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
Lee M. THOMAS, Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Defendant-Appellee, and
The Acrylonitrile Group, Inc., Alabama Power Company, et al., American Mining Congress, Association of Ethylene Oxide Users, the Cadmium Council, Inc., Chemical Manufacturers Association, the Ethylene Oxide Industry Council, the Leather Industries of America, the Society of the Plastics Industry, Inc., the Specialty Steel Industry of the United States, American Paper Institute, and American Petroleum Institute, Intervenors-Appellees.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued January 23, 1989.
Decided September 18, 1989.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
David Doniger, Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., Washington, D.C. (Eldon V.C. Greenberg, Galloway & Greenberg, Washington, D.C., Eric Goldstein, Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., New York City, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellant.
Charles S. Carter, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C. (Roger J. Marzulla, Asst. Atty. Gen. of U.S., Washington, D.C., Rudolph W. Giuliani, U.S. Atty., and Nancy Kilson, Richard W. Mark, Richard M. Schwartz, Asst. U.S. Attys. for S.D.N.Y., New York City, Robert L. Klarquist, Stephen L. Samuels, Jaques B. Gelin, Attys., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Lawrence J. Jensen, Gen. Counsel and Patricia A. Embrey, Office of Gen. Counsel to U.S.E.P.A., Washington, D.C., of counsel), for defendant-appellee.
F. William Brownell, Washington, D.C. (Henry V. Nickel, Norman W. Fichthorn, Hunton & Williams, David H. Larry, Epstein Becker Borsody & Green, P.C., Neil J. King, A. Stephen Hut, Jr., Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, David F. Zoll, Kathy Bailey, Chemical Mfg. Ass'n, Jerome H. Heckman, Peter L. de la Cruz, Susan T. Conti, Keller & Heckman, Anthony J. Thompson, Perkins Coie, Robert C. Barnard, Sara D. Shotland, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, Richard E. Schwartz, John L. Wittenborn, Collier, Shannon, Rill & Scott, Arthur F. Sampson, III, Kirkland & Ellis, Valerie J. Ughetta, American Petroleum Institute, Washington, D.C., of counsel), for intervenors-appellees.
Before NEWMAN, PIERCE and MAHONEY, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
MAHONEY, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiff-appellant, Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. ("NRDC"), appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Charles S. Haight, Jr., Judge, dismissing NRDC's complaint under section 304(a)(2) of the Clean Air Act (the "Act"), 42 U.S.C. § 7604 (1982)1, against Lee M. Thomas, the Administrator (the "Administrator") of the Environmental Protection...
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