UAP 4344 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Natural Resources Defense Council, Case Citation, Textualism

• School: Virginia Tech
• Department: Urban Affairs and Planning
• Course: UAP 4344
• Professor: Fialkoff

Document Summary

Case name: chevron inc. v. natural resources defense council. Venue/year: supreme court of the united states, 1984. Procedural history: the nrdc sued the epa for the epa"s interpretation of a violation of the. The district court sided with the epa saying that the epa was allowed to promulgate that part of the caa. The nrdc appealed and the courts sided with the nrdc saying that the agency didn"t have the right to make a decision on how to carry out the caa. The epa brought the case to the supreme court where a textualist review of the caa. The courts sided with the epa saying that the epa"s interpretation of the caa was reasonable. Facts: epa made a modification to one of their plants under the assumption that the emissions of the entire plant was encased in a single bubble.