Wisconsin Electric Power Company v. William K. Reilly, Administrator and United States Environmental Protection Agency

How courts have described this case

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• noting that Congress added the NSR program in 1977 because it was ''concerned with increases in total annual emissions”
• indicating that the purpose of extending the life of a unit beyond its expected retirement date supported the EPA’s decision that a project was not routine
• the regulatory exclusion for increases in the hours of operation “was provided to allow facilities to take advantage of fluctuating market conditions, not construction or modification activity”
• “The possibility of catastrophic failure (steam drum blowout) in unit 5 was so great that WEPCO shut down the unit completely.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).