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Administrative Law Keyed to Aman
Natural Resources Defense Council v. Environmental Protection Agency
Citation:
464 F.3d 1 (2006)Facts
The Montreal Protocol, an international treaty ratified by the U.S. in 1988 and incorporated into domestic law through the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, required the phase-out of methyl bromide, an ozone-depleting pesticide, by 2005. However, Article 2H(5) of the Protocol allowed for critical-use exemptions to be determined by the Parties. In 2003, the U.S. submitted nominations for critical-use exemptions for 2005. At their First Extraordinary Meeting in March 2004, the Parties granted the U.S. critical uses in sixteen categories amounting to 8,942 metric tons, with 7,659 metric tons of new production and consumption authorized, and the remainder to be drawn from existing stocks. The Parties also agreed in Decision IX/6 that exemptions should be granted only when all technically and economically feasible steps had been taken to minimize critical use and when methyl bromide was not available from existing stocks. EPA’s Final Rule authorized the maximum new production and consumption allowed by Decision Ex.I/3 without offsetting this by existing stocks, allowed non-critical users to draw from existing stocks, and did not reconsider whether the approved amount was the minimum feasible. NRDC challenged the rule, arguing that EPA violated the Protocol Parties’ decisions.
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