Delaware Department of Natural Resources & Environmental Control v. Environmental Protection Agency

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a district court abused its discretion in part because the record did not indicate that the trial court denied the defendant's motion because of the demands of its calendar
• stating that an agency need not “discuss every item of fact or opinion included in the submissions made to it” (citation omitted)
• stating that \[a]dministrative law does not permit\ an agency to \dodge\ its own responsibilities or \to excuse its inadequate responses by passing the entire issue off onto a different agency\
• invalidating rule in part because the EPA had failed to consult with other expert agencies on grid 92 reliability issues
• \EPA seeks to excuse its inadequate responses by passing the entire issue onto a different agency. Administrative law does not permit such a dodge.\
• “We will reverse ... when the agency did not ‘engage the arguments raised before it.’ ” (quoting NorAm Gas Transmission Co. v. FERC, 148 F.3d 1158, 1165 (D.C. Cir. 1998))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).