Petro-Chem Processing, Inc. v. Environmental Protection Agency, Hazardous Waste Treatment Council v. Environmental Protection Agency

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that an injury is self-inflicted if it is “so completely due to the [state’s] own fault as to break the causal chain.” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• explaining that hazardous waste disposal companies that chose geologic repositories over safer methods did so in their own economic self-interest, breaking the causal chain between the threatened injury and EPA’s regulations
• self-inflicted injury does not support standing if it is “so completely due to the [complainant’s] own fault as to break the causal chain”
• self-inflicted injuries do not 21 satisfy standing if “so completely due to the [complainant’s] own fault as to break the causal 22 chain”
• potential liability from unsafe disposal of hazardous waste was not traceable to agency action because agency did not require use of the disposal method at issue
• “[T]o the extent that this injury is self-inflicted, it is so completely due to the [complainant’s] own fault as to break the causal chain.” (internal quotations omitted) (alteration in original)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).