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CALIFORNIA BY AND THROUGH BECERRA v. U.S. EPA

No. 19-17480.

978 F.3d 708 (2020)

State of CALIFORNIA, BY AND THROUGH Attorney General Xavier BECERRA and the California Air Resources Board; State of Illinois; State of Maryland; State of New Mexico; State of Oregon; Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; State of Rhode Island; State of Vermont, Plaintiffs-Appellees, Environmental Defense Fund, Intervenor-Plaintiff-Appellee, v. U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; Andrew Wheeler, Acting Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Defendants-Appellants, and E. Scott Pruitt, Administrator, U.S. EPA, Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed October 22, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joan M. Pepin (argued), David Gunter , and Leslie M. Hill , Attorneys; Eric Grant , Deputy Assistant Attorney General; Jeffrey Bossert Clark , Assistant Attorney General; Environment and Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; Matthew C. Marks and Karen J. Palmer , Attorneys, EPA Office of General Counsel, Washington, D.C.; for Defendants-Appellants.

Elizabeth B. Rumsey (argued) and Julia K. Forgie , Deputy Attorneys General; Gary Tavetian and David A. Zonana , Supervising Deputy Attorneys General; Robert Byrne and Sally Magnani , Senior Assistant Attorneys General; Xavier Becerra , Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, Oakland, California; Kwame Raoul , Attorney General; Daniel I. Rottenberg , Assistant Attorney General; Attorney General's Office, Chicago, Illinois; Brian E. Frosh , Attorney General; Leah J. Tulin , Assistant Attorney General; Attorney General's Office, Baltimore, Maryland; Hector Balderas , Attorney General; Bill Grantham , Assistant Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Ellen F. Rosenblum , Attorney General; Paul Garrahan , Attorney-Charge, Natural Resources Division; Oregon Department of Justice; Salem, Oregon; Josh Shapiro , Attorney General; Michael J. Fischer , Chief Deputy Attorney General; Robert A. Reiley , Assistant Director, Department of Environment Protection; Office of the Attorney General, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Thomas J. Donovan Jr. , Attorney General; Nicholas F. Persampieri , Assistant Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General; Montpelier, Vermont; for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Susannah Weaver (argued) and Matthew Littleton , Donahue Goldberg Weaver & Littleton, Washington, D.C.; Peter Zalzal and Rachel Fullmer , Environmental Defense Fund, Boulder, Colorado; for Intervenor-Plaintiff-Appellee.

Before: Eugene E. Siler, Kenneth K. Lee, and Patrick J. Bumatay, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

On one level this case is about trash. When we toss our food packaging, the core of an apple, or almost any other material, our garbage winds up in one place: municipal solid-waste landfills. Over a thousand of these landfills are littered across the country to store and process household waste. Responsibility...

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