Whitman v. American Trucking Ass'ns, Inc.
2001 United States Supreme Court case / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Whitman v. American Trucking Associations, Inc., 531 U.S. 457 (2001), was a case decided by the United States Supreme Court in which the Environmental Protection Agency's National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) for regulating ozone and particulate matter was challenged by the American Trucking Association, along with other private companies and the states of Michigan, Ohio, and West Virginia.[1]
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Whitman v. American Trucking Associations, Inc. | |
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Argued November 7, 2000 Decided February 27, 2001 | |
Full case name | Christine Todd Whitman, Administrator of Environmental Protection Agency, et al. v. American Trucking Associations, Inc., et al. |
Citations | 531 U.S. 457 (more) 121 S. Ct. 903; 149 L. Ed. 2d 1; 2001 U.S. LEXIS 1952 |
Argument | Oral argument |
Case history | |
Prior | 175 F.3d 1027 (D.C. Cir. 1999), opinion modified on rehearing en banc, 195 F.3d 4 (D.C. Cir. 1999); cert. granted, 529 U.S. 1129, 530 U.S. 1202 (2000). |
Holding | |
(1) The Clean Air Act properly delegated legislative power to the Environmental Protection Agency. (2) The Environmental Protection Agency cannot consider implementation costs in setting primary and secondary national ambient air quality standards. | |
Court membership | |
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Case opinions | |
Majority | Scalia, joined by Rehnquist, O'Connor, Thomas, Kennedy, Ginsburg; Stevens, Souter (except part III); Breyer (except part II) |
Concurrence | Thomas |
Concurrence | Stevens (in part), joined by Souter |
Concurrence | Breyer (in part) |
Laws applied | |
Section 109 of the Clean Air Act (CAA) |
The Supreme Court faced the issues of whether the statute had impermissibly delegated legislative power to the agency and whether the Administrator of the EPA, Christine Todd Whitman, could consider the costs of implementation in setting national ambient air quality standards.[2]