American Petroleum Institute v. EPA

Petition for certiorari denied on April 1, 2013

Docket No.	Op. Below	Argument	Opinion	Vote	Author	Term
12-760	D.C. Cir.	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	OT 2012

Issue: Whether the Environmental Protection Agency may establish a new National Ambient Air Quality Standard under the Clean Air Act based on a purely hypothetical threat to the public health, as the D.C. Circuit held, or whether the agency is instead limited to establishing standards that are necessary to protect the public health from an actual or reasonably anticipated threat of harm.

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Petition of the day (Mary Pat Dwyer, March 27, 2013)

Date	Proceedings and Orders (key to color coding)
12/21/2012	Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due January 25, 2013)
01/16/2013	Order extending time to file response to petition to and including February 25, 2013.
02/25/2013	Brief of respondents Environmental Protection Agency, et al. in opposition filed.
03/12/2013	Reply of petitioner American Petroleum Institute filed.
03/13/2013	DISTRIBUTED for Conference of March 29, 2013.
04/01/2013	Petition DENIED.