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No. 23-1067October Term 2024Decided Mar 28, 2025

Docket 23-1067October Term 2024 (2024–2025)

Oklahoma, et al., Petitioners v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al.

This case addresses whether challenges to the EPA's rejection of state air quality plans must be heard exclusively in the D.C.

Case status

Current stage
Decided
Latest event
Decision released Mar 28, 2025
Case AcceptedOct 21, 2024
Arguments HeardMar 25, 2025
Decision ReleasedMar 28, 2025
What it's about

This case addresses whether challenges to the EPA's rejection of state air quality plans must be heard exclusively in the D.C. Circuit Court or in regional circuit courts. The Supreme Court ruled that the Clean Air Act requires such challenges to be reviewed in regional courts when the EPA's action is locally or regionally applicable, even if the agency published multiple state disapprovals in a single notice.

Question presented

Does the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia have exclusive jurisdiction to review an Environmental Protection Agency action that affects only one state or region, simply because the EPA published that action alongside actions affecting other states in a single Federal Register notice?

Case path

United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit / Decision released Mar 28, 2025

Area

Administrative Law