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· 2/25/2003

City of Waukesha v. Environmental Protection Agency

Citations

  • 320 F.3d 228
  • 355 U.S. App. D.C. 100
  • 33 Envtl. L. Rep. (Envtl. Law Inst.) 20160
  • 55 ERC (BNA) 2025
  • 2003 U.S. App. LEXIS 3456

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  • concluding that the agency acted reasonably in declining to promulgate uniform standards because risk variations in virtually all cases were confined to the acceptable range
  • concluding that “in the face of uncertain laboratory and epidemiological data, it was reasonable for EPA to take the risk-averse approach of relying on the animal laboratory data to develop a lower standard”
  • concluding that the agency acted reasonably in declining to promulgate uniform stan- dards because risk variations in virtually all cases were confined to the acceptable range
  • holding that advocacy group that “provided no affidavit that establishes with specificity and concreteness any particular member . . . that is likely to suffer increased drinking water costs” had failed to establish standing
  • noting that the parties represented to the Court “[p]ursuant to Local Rule 16.3(d) and this Court’s General Order for Civil Cases” that “this matter can be most efficiently resolved solely through the filing of dispositive motions”
  • stating that -10- courts need not address “asserted but unanalyzed contention[s]”

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Judges: Henderson, Rogers, Garland

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