Larry Askins v. Ohio Department of Agriculture

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• holding that Act does not permit citizen suits against states in their regulatory capacity
• suggesting citizens are “backup” to the EPA and states, which are the primary enforcers
• first citing 33 U.S.C. § 1365(a)(2); and then citing Dep’t of Energy v. Ohio, 503 U.S. 607, 615 (1992)
• “The citizen suit serves only as a backup, ‘permitting citizens to abate pollution when the government cannot or will not command compliance’” (emphasis in original

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).