CONNECTICUT v. AMERICAN ELEC. POWER CO., INC.

Docket Nos. 05-5104-cv, 05-5119-cv.

582 F.3d 309 (2009)

State of CONNECTICUT, State of New York, People of the State of California ex rel. Attorney General Bill Lockyer, State of Iowa, State of New Jersey, State of Rhode Island, State of Vermont, State of Wisconsin, and City of New York, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY INC., American Electric Power Service Corporation, Southern Company, Tennessee Valley Authority, Xcel Energy, Inc., and Cinergy Corporation, Defendants-Appellees. Open Space Institute, Inc., Open Space Conservancy, Inc., Audubon Society of New Hampshire, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. American Electric Power Company Inc., American Electric Power Service Corporation, Southern Company, Tennessee Valley Authority, Xcel Energy, Inc., and Cinergy Corporation, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: September 21, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Blumenthal, Attorney General of the State of Connecticut, Hartford, CT, Peter Lehner, Bureau Chief, Environmental Protection Bureau of the State of New York, (Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York, Caitlin J. Halligan, Solicitor General, Daniel J. Chepaitis, Assistant Solicitor General, Jared Snyder, Simon Wynn, Assistant Attorneys General of the State of New York, on the brief), New York, NY, for State and New York City Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Matthew F. Pawa, (Benjamin A. Krass, on the brief), Law Offices of Matthew F. Pawa, P.C., Newton Centre, MA, (Mitchell S. Bernard, Nancy S. Marks, Amelia E. Toledo, Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., New York, NY, on the brief) for Organizational Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Joseph R. Guerra, (Angus Macbeth, Thomas G. Echikson, on the briefs), Sidley Austin LLP, Washington, D.C., (Steven M. Bierman, Sidley Austin LLP, New York, NY, Thomas E. Fennell, Michael L. Rice, Jones Day, Dallas, TX, Shawn Patrick Regan, Hunton & Williams LLP, New York, NY, F. William Brownell, Norman W. Fichthorn, Allison D. Wood, Hunton & Williams LLP, Washington D.C., on the briefs) for Defendants-Appellees.

Edwin W. Small, Assistant General Counsel, (Maureen H. Dunn, General Counsel, Harriet A. Cooper, Assistant General Counsel, on the brief), Tennessee Valley Authority, Knoxville, TN, for Defendant-Appellee TVA.

Before: McLAUGHLIN and HALL, Circuit Judges.


PETER W. HALL, Circuit Judge:

In 2004, two groups of Plaintiffs, one consisting of eight States and New York City, and the other consisting of three land trusts (collectively "Plaintiffs"), separately sued the same six electric power corporations that own and operate fossil-fuel-fired power plants in twenty states (collectively "Defendants"), seeking abatement of Defendants' ongoing contributions to the public nuisance of global warming. Plaintiffs claim that global...

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