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· 7/23/2010

ConocoPhillips Co. v. United States Environmental Protection Agency

Citations

  • 612 F.3d 822

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • observing that, under the APA, a proposed rule's \reference to legal authority must be sufficiently precise to 9 apprise interested person's of the agency's legal authority to issue the proposed rule\
  • the agency must make do with the available information and is well within its discretion to regulate on the basis of available information
  • agency has inherent authority to reconsider its decisions unless to do so would be arbitrary, capricious, or an abuse of discretion
  • “Nouns joined by coordinating conjunctions are usually treated as a single, compounded unit, and a postmodifying prepositional phrase is most naturally read to modify that single unit.”
  • “Nouns joined by coordinating conjunctions are usually treated as a single, compounded unit[.]”
  • addressing regulation of cooling water systems at power plants

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Judges: Wiener

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