NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASS'N v. U.S. EPA

No. 17-60828. consolidated with No. 20-60929.

991 F.3d 681 (2021)

NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION; Sierra Club; Environmental Defense Fund, Petitioners, v. UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; Jane Nishida, Acting Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Respondents.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

FILED March 25, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Christopher Soules , Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund, Washington, DC, Matthew Gerhart , Sierra Club, Environmental Law Program, Denver, CO, for Petitioners National Parks Conservation Association and Environmental Defense Fund.

Michael Christopher Soules , Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund, Washington, DC, Matthew Gerhart , Sierra Club, Environmental Law Program, Denver, CO, Elena Kathryn Saxonhouse , Joshua Smith , Sierra Club, Environmental Law Program, Oakland, CA, for Petitioner Sierra Club.

Phillip R. Dupre , U.S. Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Washington, DC, Avi S. Garbow , Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, for Respondents United States Environmental Protection Agency and Andrew Wheeler.

Philip Stephen Gidiere, III, Esq. , Julia Blair Barber , Balch & Bingham, L.L.P., Birmingham, AL, Daniel Jude Kelly , Associate General Counsel, Vistra Energy Corporation, Dallas, TX, David Welles Mitchell , Senior Counsel, Vistra Energy, Irving, TX, Stephanie Zapata Moore , General Counsel, Vistra Energy Corporation, Dallas, TX, for Intervenors Luminant Generation Company, L.L.C., Big Brown Power Company, L.L.C., and Luminant Mining Company, L.L.C.

April Lucas , Albert R. Axe, Jr. , Keith Alan Courtney , McGinnis Lochridge, L.L.P., Austin, TX, for Intervenor Southwestern Electric Power Company.

Aaron Michael Streett , Baker Botts, L.L.P., Houston, TX, for Intervenor NRG Texas Power, L.L.C.

Philip Stephen Gidiere, III, Esq. , Julia Blair Barber , Balch & Bingham, L.L.P., Birmingham, AL, Sherwin Faridifar , Derek Raymond McDonald , Baker Botts, L.L.P., Austin, TX, for Intervenor Coleto Creek Power, L.L.C.

Debra J. Jezouit , Allison Watkins Mallick , Baker Botts, L.L.P., Washington, DC, for Intervenor Southwestern Public Service Company.

Charles McPhedran, Esq. , Earthjustice, Philadelphia, PA, for Petitioners National Parks Conservation Association and Environmental Defense Fund.

Charles McPhedran, Esq. , Earthjustice, Philadelphia, PA, Joshua Smith , Sierra Club, Environmental Law Program, Oakland, CA, for Petitioner Sierra Club.

Phillip R. Dupre , U.S. Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Washington, DC, Matthew Z. Leopold , Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, for Respondent United States Environmental Protection Agency.

Before Davis, Stewart, and Dennis, Circuit Judges.


Respondent-Intervenors, Luminant Generation Company LLC, Big Brown Power Company LLC, Luminant Mining Company LLC, Coleto Creek Power, LLC, Southwestern Electric Power Company, NRG Texas Power LLC, and Southwestern Public Service Company, jointly move this Court to reconsider two orders issued in this matter. Specifically, Respondent-Intervenors...

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