Alabama Power Company v. Douglas M. Costle, as Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency, Sierra Club, Intervenors.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the EPA did not have authority to dispense with monitoring where Congress mandated the use of that technique, even though monitoring technology at the time was limited
• recognizing that the EPA had the authority to adopt different regulatory definitions for “source” in NSR and NSPS in light of the “differences in the purpose and structure of the two programs”
• indicating that an agency's power to find categorical exemptions to statutory schemes is designed to \overlook circumstances that in context may fairly be considered de minimus\
• indicating that an agency’s power to find categorical exemptions to statutory schemes is designed to “overlook circumstances that in context may fairly be considered de minimus”
• noting that the term modification “is nowhere limited to physical changes exceeding a certain magnitude”
• indicating that an agency’s power to find categorical exemptions to statutory schemes is designed to “overlook circumstances that in context may fairly be considered de minimus”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).