CITY OF TAUNTON, MASSACHUSETTS v. U.S. E.P.A.

No. 16-2280.

895 F.3d 120 (2018)

CITY OF TAUNTON, MASSACHUSETTS, Petitioner, v. UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

July 9, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Hall , with whom Philip D. Rosenman and Hall & Associates, Washington, DC, were on brief, for petitioner.

Sarah A. Buckley , Trial Attorney, United States Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Environmental Defense Section, with whom Jeffrey H. Wood , Acting Assistant Attorney General, Environment and Natural Resources Division, David J. Kaplan , Trial Attorney, and Samir Bukhari , Of Counsel, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Region 1, were on brief, for respondent.

Michael Rubin , Assistant Attorney General, Rhode Island Attorney General's Office, with whom Peter F. Kilmartin , Attorney General, State of Rhode Island, on brief as amicus curiae.

Before Torruella, Lipez, and Thompson, Circuit Judges.


The City of Taunton, Massachusetts (the "City"), objects to the decision of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to impose a limit — through a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit — on the amount of nitrogen that the Taunton Wastewater...

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