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Association of Battery Recyclers, Inc. v. E.P.A., 716 F.3d 667, 76 ERC 1609, 405 U.S.App.D.C. 100

Facts

Industry and environmental groups filed petitions for review of the EPA's revised emissions standards for secondary lead smelting facilities, which aimed to reduce allowable emissions by 90%. The revisions required smelters to enclose certain emission sources and were based on the Clean Air Act's requirements for hazardous air pollutants. The case involved multiple parties, including industry petitioners and environmental groups, who intervened in each other's cases, with RSR Corporation participating as both a petitioner and respondent.

Industry and environmental groups filed petitions for review of the EPA's revised emissions standards for secondary lead smelting facilities, which aimed to reduce allowable emissions by 90%.

Issue

The main legal issues included whether the revised standards impermissibly regulated elemental lead as a hazardous air pollutant, whether industry groups had standing to challenge the EPA's methodology for estimating emissions, and whether the EPA acted arbitrarily in its decision-making process.

Rule

The court applied the Clean Air Act's provisions, particularly sections 112(d)(1), 112(d)(2), and 112(d)(6), which govern the EPA's authority to set emissions standards for hazardous air pollutants and the requirements for reviewing and revising those standards.

Section 112 of the Clean Air Act requires EPA to promulgate emissions standards for major sources of hazardous air pollutants (“HAPs”). 42 U.S.C. § 7412(d)(1).

Analysis

The court found that the EPA's revised standards did not violate the Clean Air Act's prohibition against regulating elemental lead as a hazardous air pollutant. It ruled that the industry petitioners lacked standing to challenge the EPA's methodology because they could not demonstrate that any alleged errors would have changed the outcome. The court also upheld the EPA's authority to consider costs in setting emissions standards and determined that the agency did not act arbitrarily in its decisions regarding compliance timelines and the stringency of the standards.

Conclusion

The Court of Appeals upheld the EPA's revised emissions standards and denied the petitions for review in part while dismissing others. The court concluded that the EPA acted within its statutory authority and that the challenges presented by the petitioners were unpersuasive.

The Court of Appeals upheld the EPA's revised emissions standards and denied the petitions for review in part while dismissing others.

Who won?

The Environmental Protection Agency prevailed in the case as the court upheld its revised emissions standards and found that the challenges from industry and environmental groups were largely without merit.

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