IN RE CLEAN WATER ACT RULEMAKING

No. C 20-04636 WHA, No. C 20-04869 WHA, No. C 20-06137 WHA (Consolidated).

568 F.Supp.3d 1013 (2021)

IN RE CLEAN WATER ACT RULEMAKING. This Document Relates to: All Actions.

United States District Court, N.D. California.

Signed October 21, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew McAleer Hawley , Western Environmental Law Center, Seattle, WA, Jason Robert Flanders , Aqua Terra Aeris Law Group, Oakland, CA, Daniel James Cordalis , Cordalis Law, P.C., McKinleyville, CA, Peter M.K. Frost , Pro Hac Vice, Sangye Ince-Johannsen , Pro Hac Vice, Western Environmental Law Center, Eugene, OR, for American Rivers, American Whitewater, California Trout, Idaho Rivers United.

Paul Andrew Garrahan , Oregon Department of Justice Natural Resources Section, Salem, OR, for State of Oregon.

Lisa Morelli , Office of the Attorney General, Trenton, NJ, for State of New Jersey.

Brian M. Lusignan , New York State Attorney General, New York, NY, for State of New York.

John B. Howard, Jr. , Office of the Attorney General, Baltimore, MD, for State of Maryland.

Alison B. Hoffman , RI Office of Attorney General, Providence, RI, for State of Rhode Island.

Annette Quill , Carrie Noteboom , Natural Resources Section, Denver, CO, for State of Colorado.

Brian R. Caldwell , Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia, Public Advocacy Division, Washington, DC, for District of Columbia.

Tatiana Koleva Gaur , Office of the Attorney General, Los Angeles, CA, for State Water Resources Control Board.

Asher Paris Spiller , Taylor H. Crabtree , North Carolina Department of Justice, Raleigh, NC, for State of North Carolina.

David Cardwell Grandis , Office of Attorney General of VA, Richmond, VA, for Commonwealth of Virginia.

William G. Grantham , NM Attorney General's Office, Consumer & Environmental Protection Division, Santa Fe, NM, for State of New Mexico.

Laura B. Murphy , VT Attorney General's Office, Montpelier, VT, for State of Vermont.

Peter N. Surdo , Office of the Minnesota Attorney General, St. Paul, MN, for State of Minnesota.

Jill Lacedonia , CT Attorney General's Office, Hartford, CT, for State of Connecticut.

Kelly T. Wood , Gabrielle Lauren Gurian , Pro Hac Vice, Washington Office of the Attorney General, Ecology Division, Olympia, WA, Cindy Chang , Attorney Generals Office of Washington, Seattle, WA, for State of Washington.

Gillian, Wener , Michigan Attorney General's Office, ENRA Division, Lansing, MI, for State of Michigan.

Matthew Ireland , Massachusetts Attorney General's Office, Environmental Protection Division, Boston, MA, for Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Heidi Parry Stern , Office of the Nevada Attorney General, Las Vegas, NV, for State of Nevada.

Gabe Johnson-Karp , Wisconsin Department of Justice, Madison, WI, for State of Wisconsin.

Jillian Renee O'Brien , Office of the Maine Attorney General, Augusta, ME, for State of Maine.

Jason Elliott James , Illinois Attorney General's Office, Chicago, IL, for State of Illinois.

Gussie Lord , Earthjustice, Denver, CO, Kristen Lee Boyles , Earthjustice, Andrew McAleer Hawley , Western Environmental Law Center, Seattle, WA, Nathan Matthews , Sierra Club Environmental Law Program, Oakland, CA, Olivia Elisabeth Glasscock , Thomas Scott Waldo , Earthjustice, Juneau, AK, Michael Youhana , Pro Hac Vice, Moneen S. Nasmith , Earthjustice, New York, NY, for Columbia Riverkeeper.

Gussie Lord , Earthjustice, Denver, CO, Kristen Lee Boyles , Earthjustice, Seattle, WA, Nathan Matthews , Sierra Club Environmental Law Program, Oakland, CA, Olivia Elisabeth Glasscock , Thomas Scott Waldo , Earthjustice, Juneau, AK, Michael Youhana , Pro Hac Vice, Moneen S. Nasmith , Earthjustice, New York, NY, for Sierra Club, Suquamish Tribe, Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe, Orutsararmiut Native Council.

Adam Leonard Levitan , Bryant B. Cannon , Catherine Mitchell Wieman , Tatiana Koleva Gaur, Office of the Attorney General, Los Angeles, CA, Lani Maria Maher , California Attorney General's Office Department of Justice, Oakland, CA, for State of California.

Marguerite Clare Ellis , Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, San Francisco, CA, Deidre G. Duncan , Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, Washington, DC, George P. Sibley, III , Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, Richmond, VA, for American Petroleum Institute, Interstate Natural Gas Association of America.

Andrea West Wortzel , Pro Hac Vice, Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP, Richmond, VA, Charles R. Sensiba , Pro Hac Vice, Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP, Washington, DC, Elizabeth Holt Andrews , Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP, San Francisco, CA, Misha Tseytlin , Pro Hac Vice, Sean T.H. Dutton , Pro Hac Vice, Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP, Chicago, IL, for National Hydropower Association.

Elisabeth Hill Carter , Leslie M. Hill , U.S. Dept. of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Waldref Ruth Vanessa , U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Andrew R. Wheeler, US Environmental Protection Agency.

Nicholas Bronni , Vincent Wagner , Arkansas Attorney Generals Office, Little Rock, AR, Bradley A. Benbrook , Benbrook Law Group, Sacramento, CA, Moneen S. Nasmith , Earthjustice, New York, NY, for State of Arkansas.

Joseph Scott St. John , Pro Hac Vice, Louisiana Department of Justice Office of the Attorney General, New Orleans, LA, Bradley A. Benbrook , Benbrook Law Group, Sacramento, CA, David Jonathan Hacker , Office of Attorney General of Texas, Austin, TX, Elizabeth Murrill , Pro Hac Vice, Ryan Michael Seidemann , Pro Hac Vice, Louisiana Department of Justice, Baton Rouge, LA, for State of Louisiana.

Justin Matheny , Krissy C. Nobile , Kristi H. Johnson , Pro Hac Vice, Mississippi Attorney General's Office, Jackson, MS, Bradley A. Benbrook , Benbrook Law Group, Sacramento, CA, David Jonathan Hacker , Office of Attorney General of Texas, Austin, TX, for State of Mississippi.

Bradley A. Benbrook , Benbrook Law Group, Sacramento, CA, David Jonathan Hacker , Office of Attorney General of Texas, Austin, TX, for State of Missouri.

Kathleen Smithgall , Hannah Elizabeth Tokerud , Melissa A. Schlichting , Office of the Montana Attorney General, Helena, MT, Bradley A. Benbrook , Benbrook Law Group, Sacramento, CA, David Jonathan Hacker , Office of Attorney General of Texas, Austin, TX, for State of Montana.

Bradley A. Benbrook , Benbrook Law Group, Sacramento, CA, David Jonathan Hacker , Kathleen T. Hunker , Shawn Eric Cowles , Office of Attorney General of Texas, Austin, TX, for State of Texas.

Bradley A. Benbrook , Benbrook Law Group, Sacramento, CA, David Jonathan Hacker , Office of Attorney General of Texas, Austin, TX, Lindsay Sarah See , WV Attorney General, Solicitor General, Charleston, WV, for State of West Virginia.

James Kaste , Pro Hac Vice, Wyoming Attorney General's Office, Cheyenne, WY, Bradley A. Benbrook , Benbrook Law Group, Sacramento, CA, David Jonathan Hacker , Office of Attorney General of Texas, Austin, TX, for State of Wyoming.


ORDER RE MOTION FOR REMAND WITHOUT VACATUR

INTRODUCTION

Plaintiff states, tribes, and non-profit conservation groups have challenged EPA's Clean Water Act certification rule, and now EPA moves to remand the proceedings without vacatur...

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