{"id":10673,"date":"2015-07-22T12:27:33","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T17:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/?p=10673"},"modified":"2015-07-22T12:27:33","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T17:27:33","slug":"oklahoma-court-rejects-yet-another-flawed-challenge-to-the-proposed-clean-power-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2015\/07\/22\/oklahoma-court-rejects-yet-another-flawed-challenge-to-the-proposed-clean-power-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma Court Rejects Yet Another Flawed Challenge to the Proposed Clean Power Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"rp_scales_of_justice.png\"<\/a>The Clean Power Plan<\/a> has now won a second round in court \u2013 before the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finished writing it.<\/p>\n

The federal district court for the Northern District of Oklahoma rejected another <\/em>premature challenge<\/a> on Friday to the proposed standards for carbon pollution from existing fossil fuel power plants.<\/p>\n

The first \u2013 a challenge brought by Murray Energy Corporation and several states, including Oklahoma \u2013 was dismissed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit<\/a> just last month. In that decision, the D.C. Circuit court found petitioners\u2019 attack on the Clean Power Plan was premature — relying on the plain text of the Clean Air Act, bedrock principles of administrative law, and (as the petitioners themselves acknowledged) the unbroken practice in the D.C. Circuit allowing challenges only to final<\/em> agency actions.<\/p>\n

This finality requirement<\/a> is critically important to the integrity of the administrative process, ensuring the agency has an opportunity to consider and incorporate public input and that a reviewing court evaluates the agency\u2019s final, carefully-determined course of action.<\/p>\n

In last month\u2019s decision<\/a>, the D.C. Circuit noted that petitioners were \u201cchamping at the bit\u201d to challenge the Clean Power Plan. True to form, the state of Oklahoma filed another<\/em> challenge \u2013 pressing substantially similar claims to those already rejected by the D.C. Circuit, but this time seeking judicial review in Oklahoma federal district court.<\/p>\n

If the challenges in the D.C. Circuit represented an attempted end run around the judicial review provisions of the Clean Air Act, then here the plaintiffs tried a double end run \u2014 adding to their flawed premature challenge by seeking judicial review in the wrong court.<\/p>\n

The Clean Air Act provides that a challenge to any \u201cstandard of performance or requirement under section [111]\u201d \u2014 which will include EPA\u2019s Clean Power Plan, when finalized \u2014 must be filed in the D.C. Circuit. The Clean Air Act vests the D.C. Circuit with this authority to ensure uniform and consistent review of actions that apply nationally.<\/p>\n

The Oklahoma federal district court made short work of the suit.<\/p>\n

On Friday, the court firmly rejected the challenges<\/a> \u2013 dismissing them on the basis of the plaintiffs\u2019 brief alone, without even waiting for EPA\u2019s response.<\/p>\n

The Oklahoma federal district court decision both reaffirmed the courts\u2019 authority to review only final agency actions, and identified the D.C. Circuit as the proper venue for challenging the Clean Power Plan, when it is finalized.<\/p>\n

In the decision, written by Oklahoma federal district court Judge Claire Eagen, the court said:<\/p>\n

The D.C. Circuit has already determined that the proposed emission standards are not a final agency action, and that court has denied a petition to review the proposed emission standards before they become a final rule. (Page 9<\/em>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The decision also says:<\/p>\n

Even if the Court found that it would not be premature to exercise jurisdiction over this case, plaintiffs have failed to show that jurisdictional review provision of the CAA would permit this Court to exercise jurisdiction over the case . . . . The ultimate issue of whether the EPA has the authority to promulgate the disputed emission standards pursuant to \u00a7 7411(d) must be decided by the court with exclusive jurisdiction over these matters, and that court is the D.C. Circuit<\/em>. (Page 9 \u2013 Emphasis Added<\/em>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Taken together, these decisions should give pause to litigants contemplating procedurally-flawed legal challenges — but unfortunately, Oklahoma is continuing to press these misguided claims in an appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. And these are just the latest in a series of legally-unfoundedattacks on these critical standards.<\/p>\n

The health and environmental benefits of the Clean Power Plan could be profound. As EPA prepares for the inevitable legal challenges to come, it has a strong track record of defending the Clean Power Plan and other important clean air safeguards against legal attacks. That’s good news for the families and communities that are afflicted by carbon pollution from fossil fuel-fired power plants \u2014 the nation’s single largest source of this climate-destabilizing pollution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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