· 7/8/1996
Huls America Inc. v. Carol M. Browner, Administrator, and the Environmental Protection Agency
Citations
- 83 F.3d 445
- 317 U.S. App. D.C. 333
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- holding “shall take into account the toxicity, reactivity . . . combustibility, or flammability of a substance” could limit “the EPA’s discretion to consider only those factors it deems relevant.”
- defining “cost” as the “amount paid or charged for something; price or expenditure”
- \[W]e will give an extreme degree of deference to the agency when it 'is evaluating scientific data within its technical expertise.' \ (citation omitted)
- “we will give an extreme degree of deference to the agency when it is evaluating scientific data within its technical expertise”
- “[W]e will give an extreme degree of deference to the agency when ‘it is evaluating scientific data within its technical expertise.’”
- regulation “merit[ed] traditional Chevron deference” where the agency “ha[d] never adopted any different interpretation” of the statutory provision at issue, although the agency had “suggested it could reconsider” the regulation
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Judges: Wald, Ginsburg, Henderson
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