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FRIENDS OF BUCKINGHAM v. STATE AIR POLLUTION

No. 19-1152.

947 F.3d 68 (2020)

FRIENDS OF BUCKINGHAM; Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Incorporated, Petitioners, v. STATE AIR POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD; Richard D. Langford, Chair of the State Air Pollution Control Board; Virginia Department of Environmental Quality; David K. Paylor, Director, Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, Respondents, Atlantic Coast Pipeline LLC, Intervenor. Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law; Delegate Dawn Adams; Delegate Lashrecse Aird; Delegate Hala Alaya; Delegate John Bell; Senator Jennifer Boysko; Delegate Jennifer Carroll Foy; Delegate Lee Carter; Delegate Kelly Convirs-Fowler; Senator Creigh Deeds; Delegate Karrie Delaney; Delegate Wendy Gooditis; Delegate Elizabeth Guzman; Delegate Patrick Alan Hope; Delegate Chris Hurst; Delegate Jay Jones; Delegate Mark Keam; Delegate Kaye Kory; Delegate Paul Krizek; Delegate Mark Levine; Delegate Alfonso Lopez; Delegate Kenneth R. Plum; Delegate Sam Rasoul; Delegate Marcus Simon; Delegate Kathy Tran; Delegate Cheryl Turpin; Delegate Debra Rodman; Delegate Ibraheem Samirah; Delegate Lionell Spruill; Virginia Conference NAACP; The Center for Earth Ethics; Virginia State Conference of NAACP Branches; Union Grove Missionary Baptist Church; Sierra Club; Virginia Interfaith Power and Light; Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice, Amici Supporting Petitioners. Joseph Scruggs; Gerald Washington; Craig White, Amici Supporting Respondents/Intervenor.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: January 7, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: David L. Neal , SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Jon Alan Mueller , CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION, INC., Annapolis, Maryland, for Petitioners. Martine Elizabeth Cicconi , OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF VIRGINIA, Richmond, Virginia, for Respondents. Elbert Lin , HUNTON ANDREWS KURTH LLP, Richmond, Virginia, for Intervenor. ON BRIEF: Gregory Buppert , Charmayne G. Staloff , SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER, Charlottesville, Virginia, for Petitioner Friends of Buckingham. Margaret L. Sanner , CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION, INC., Annapolis, Maryland, for Petitioner Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Inc. Mark R. Herring , Attorney General, Donald D. Anderson , Deputy Attorney General, Paul Kugelman , Senior Assistant Attorney General, Toby J. Heytens , Solicitor General, Michelle S. Kallen , Deputy Solicitor General, Brittany M. Jones , John Marshall Fellow , OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF VIRGINIA, Richmond, Virginia, for Respondents. Harry M. Johnson, III , Timothy L. McHugh , Aaron C. Alderman , Richmond, Virginia, Stuart A. Raphael , HUNTON ANDREWS KURTH LLP, Washington, D.C., for Intervenor Atlantic Coast Pipeline, LLC. Kristen Clarke , Jon Greenbaum , Dorian L. Spence , Maryum Jordan , LAWYERS' COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS UNDER LAW, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Elizabeth F. Benson , SIERRA CLUB, Oakland, California, for Amici Virginia State Conference NAACP, Union Grove Missionary Baptist Church, Sierra Club, Virginia Interfaith Power & Light, and Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice. Aderson B. Francois , Taylor Blatz , Civil Rights Clinic, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER, Washington, D.C., for Amici 28 Members of the Virginia General Assembly, Virginia State Conference NAACP, and the Center for Earth Ethics. Andrew P. Sherrod , Jaime B. Wisegarver , HIRSCHLER FLEISCHER, P.C., Richmond, Virginia, for Amici Joseph Scruggs, Gerald Washington, and Craig White.

Petition for review granted; vacated and remanded by published opinion. Judge Thacker wrote the opinion, in which Chief Judge Gregory and Judge Wynn joined.

Friends of Buckingham and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Inc. (collectively, "Petitioners") challenge the Virginia Air Pollution Control Board ("Board")'s award of a permit for construction of a compressor station on behalf of Intervenor Atlantic Coast Pipeline, LLC ("ACP") in the historic community of Union Hill in Buckingham...

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