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Whitman v. American Trucking Associations, Inc.
Citation:
531 U.S. 457 (2001)Facts
In 1997, the EPA, under the authority of Section 109 of the Clean Air Act, revised the NAAQS for particulate matter and ozone. The American Trucking Associations, along with other private companies and several states, challenged these revisions in the D.C. Circuit Court. They argued that Section 109(b)(1) unconstitutionally delegated legislative power to the EPA by failing to provide an “intelligible principle” to guide the agency’s discretion. They also contended that the EPA should consider economic costs when setting NAAQS and that the implementation provisions for ozone in Subpart 2 of Part D of Title I of the Act prevented the EPA from revising the ozone standard. The D.C. Circuit agreed that Section 109(b)(1) delegated legislative power unconstitutionally but rejected the argument about considering costs. The court also held that while Subpart 2 constrained implementation methods, it did not prevent the EPA from revising the standard.
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