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SIERRA CLUB v. E.P.A.

Nos. 01-2844, 01-2845.

311 F.3d 853 (2002)

SIERRA CLUB and Missouri Coalition for the Environment, Petitioners, v. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY and Christine Todd Whitman, Administrator, Respondents, State of Illinois, State of Missouri and Bi-State Intervenors, Intervening Respondents.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided November 25, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas R. Williams (argued), St. Louis University School of Law, Lewis C. Green, Green, Hennings & Henry, St. Louis, MO, for Petitioners.

G. Scott Williams (argued), Dept. of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Div., Washington, DC, for Respondents.

A. Benjamin Goldgar, Office of the Atty. Gen., Civ. App. Div., Chicago, IL, for Intervenor State of Illinois.

Timothy P. Duggan, Jefferson City, Mo, for Intervenor State of Missouri.

Jeffrey C. Fort, Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, Chicago, IL, Bradley S. Hiles, Peper, Martin, Jensen, Maichel & Hetlage, St. Louis, MO, for Intervenor Bi-State Intervenors.

Patricia T. Barmeyer, King & Spalding, Atlanta, GA, for Amicus Curiae State of Georgia.

Herman Robinson, Baton Rouge, LA, for Amicus Curiae State of Louisiana.

Before ROVNER, DIANE P. WOOD, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge.

The Clean Air Act (CAA), 42 U.S.C. § 7401, et seq., first enacted in 1970 and extensively revised in 1977 and 1990, establishes a complex and comprehensive regulatory system to reduce air pollution nationwide. The CAA requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) specifying the maximum permissible air concentration of pollutants such

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