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      "id": 102963,
      "date": "2001-03-28",
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      "title": "The Supreme Court Upholds EPA Standard- Setting Under the Clean Air Act: Whitman v. American Trucking Ass'ns",
      "summary": "On February 27, 2001, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in  Whitman v.\nAmerican\nTrucking Associations , a challenge to EPA's promulgation in 1997 of revised national ambient\nair\nquality standards for ozone and particulates under the Clean Air Act. On the broader issues, the\nCourt ruled that (1) the Act's provisions governing the setting of primary (health-protective) ambient\nstandards did not transgress the \"nondelegation doctrine,\" a moribund constitutional principle that\nthe court below had resurrected, and (2) the Act bars EPA from considering implementation costs\nwhen it sets primary national ambient standards. On a narrow issue, the Court held that EPA had\nnot been justified, in promulgating its ozone implementation plan, in applying only the Act's\nnonattainment-area subpart of general application, rather than a subpart specific to ozone\nnonattainment. As a result, the Court charged the agency with developing a \"reasonable\ninterpretation\" accommodating both subparts. Such accommodation is likely to prove a difficult\ntask, however, and almost certainly once adopted will generate further legal challenges.",
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