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· 4/24/2015

Delta Construction Co. v. Environmental Protection Agency

Citations

  • 414 U.S. App. D.C. 428
  • 783 F.3d 1291

How courts have described this case

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  • explaining that Article III’s causation requirement is not met when the plaintiff ’s injuries would exist absent the challenged governmental action
  • concluding during the Phase One regulatory process that the NHTSA and EPA regulations could be “bifurcated”
  • “[E]ven were we to vacate the EPA standards, the NHTSA standards would still increase the price of vehicles.”
  • “[E]ven were we to vacate the EPA standards, the NHTSA standards would still increase the price of vehicles.”
  • “Because a separate action—NHTSA’s standards—independently causes the same alleged harm as the challenged action, the California Petitioners are unable to establish the ‘necessary causal connection’ between the EPA standards and their purported injury.”

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Judges: Tatel, Edwards, Ginsburg

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