Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Ronald A. Shems, Assistant Attorney General, (Jeffrey L. Amestoy, Attorney General, Montpelier, VT, on the brief), for Petitioner State of Vermont.
Richard A. Allen (Scott M. Zimmerman, Zuckert, Scoutt & Rasenberger, L.L.P, Washington, DC; Margaret Bowman, American Rivers, Inc., Washington, DC; Ronald J. Wilson, Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, Davis, CA; Richard Roos-Collins, Natural Heritage Institute, San Francisco, CA, on the brief) for Petitioner American Rivers, Inc.
Eric L. Christensen (Susan Tomasky, General Counsel, Jerome M. Feit, Solicitor, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC), for Respondent Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
(William E. Roper, Neuse, Smith, Roper & Venman, P.C., Middlebury, VT, Mona Janopaul, Trout Unlimited, Arlington, VA), for Intervenor Trout Unlimited.
(Maureen F. Leary, Assistant Attorney General, New York State Department of Law, Environmental Protection Bureau, Dennis C. Vacco, Attorney General, Peter H. Schiff, Deputy Solicitor General, Albany, NY; Jeff Sessions, Attorney General, Craig Kneisel, Office of the Attorney General of the State of Alabama, Montgomery, AL; Bruce M. Botelho, Marie Sansone, Office of the Attorney General of the State of Alaska, Juneau, AK; Grant Woods, Attorney General, C. Tim Delaney, Office of the Attorney General of the State of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ; Winston Bryant, Attorney General, Royce O. Griffin, Office of the Attorney General of the State of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR; Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General, Thomas F. Gede, Office of the Attorney General of the State of California, Sacramento, CA; Richard Blumenthal, Attorney General, Joseph Rubin, Office of the Attorney General of the State of Connecticut, Hartford, CT; M. Jane Brady, Attorney General, Kevin P. Maloney, Office of the Attorney General of the State of Delaware, Wilmington, DE; Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Jonathan Glogau, Office of the Attorney General of the State of Florida, Tallahassee, FL; Margery S. Bronster, Attorney General, Dorothy D. Sellers, Office of the Attorney General of the State of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; Alan G. Lance, Attorney General, Clive Strong, Office of the Attorney General of the State of Idaho, Boise, ID; Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, David R. Sheridan, Office of the Attorney General of the State of Iowa, Des Moines, IA; Carla J. Stovall, Attorney General, John W. Campbell, Office of the Attorney General of the State of Kansas, Topeka, KS; Albert Benjamin Chandler, III, Attorney General, James Grawe, Office of the Attorney General of the State of Kentucky, James E. Bickford, Secretary of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, Katheryn M. Hargraves, Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Cabinet, Frankfort, KY; Richard P. Ieyoub, Attorney General, David C. Kimmel, Office of the Attorney General of the State of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, LA; Andrew Ketterer, Attorney General, Thomas A. Harnett, Office of the Attorney General of the State of Maine, Augusta, ME; J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Attorney General, Nancy W. Young, Office of the Attorney General of the State of Maryland, Baltimore, MD; Scott Harshbarger, Attorney General, Margaret Vandeusen, Office of the Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston, MA; Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General of Michigan, Lansing, MI; Hubert H. Humphrey III, Attorney General, Richard S. Slowes, Office of the Attorney General of the State of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN; Mike Moore, Attorney General, Nicole Akins Boyd, Office of the Attorney General of the State of Mississippi, Jackson, MS; Jeremiah W. Nixon, Attorney General, James R. Layton, Office of the Attorney General of the State of Missouri, Jefferson City, MO; Joseph P. Mazurek, Attorney General, Clay R. Smith, Office of the Attorney General of the State of Montana, Helena, MT; Frankie Sue Del Papa, Attorney General, Brooke A. Nielsen, Office of the Attorney General of the State of Nevada, Carson City, NV; Jeffrey R. Howard, Attorney General, Michael J. Walls, Office of the Attorney General of the State of New Hampshire, Concord, NH; Peter Verniero, Attorney General of New Jersey, Trenton, NJ; Tom Udall, Attorney General of The State of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM; Michael F. Easley, Attorney General, Marc D. Bernstein, Office of the Attorney General of the State of North Carolina, Raleigh, NC; Betty D. Montgomery, Attorney General, Simon Karras, Office of the Attorney General of the State of Ohio, Columbus, OH; Drew Edmondson, Attorney General, Miles Tolbert, Office of the Attorney General of the State of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK; Theodore R. Kulongoski, Attorney General, Rives Kistler, Office of the Attorney General of the State of Oregon, Salem, OR; Thomas W. Corbett, Jr., Attorney General, Calvin R. Koons, Office of the Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA; Charles Molony Condon, Attorney General, J. Robert Bolchoz, Office of the Attorney General of the State of South Carolina, Columbia, SC; Charles W. Burson, Attorney General, Barry Turner, Office of the Attorney General of the State of Tennessee, Nashville, TN; Dan Morales, Attorney General, Javier P. Guajardo, Office of the Attorney General of the State of Texas, Austin, TX; Darrell V. McGraw, Jr., Attorney General, Silas B. Taylor, Office of the Attorney General of the State of West Virginia, Charleston, WV; Christine O. Gregoire, Attorney General of Washington, Olympia, WA; William U. Hill, Attorney General, Jay Woodhouse, Office of the Attorney General of the State of Wyoming, Cheyenne, WY), for Amici Curiae the States of New York, Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Washington, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
(Christopher M. Kilian, Harwell E. Coale, III, Vermont Natural Resources Council, Montpelier, VT), for Amicus Curiae Vermont Natural Resources Council, Inc.
(John R. Molm, Winifred D. Simpson, Clifford S. Sikora, Troutman Sanders, LLP, Washington, DC; William J. Madden, John A. Whitaker, IV, Winston & Strawn, Washington, DC; Alan M. Richardson, American Public Power Ass'n, Washington, DC; Donald H. Clarke, Wilkinson, Barker, Knauer & Quinn, Washington, DC; Henri D. Bartholomot, Washington, DC), for Amici Curiae Edison Elec. Inst., Central Vermont Pub. Serv. Corp., American Pub. Power Ass'n, and the National Hydropower Ass'n.
Before: WALKER, JACOBS and PARKER, Circuit Judges.
