Nrdc

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE No. 13-70544 COUNCIL and COMMUNITIES FOR A

BETTER ENVIRONMENT,

Petitioners,

OPINION

v.

U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY; LISA P. JACKSON,

Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; JARED BLUMENFELD, Regional Administrator, Region IX, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Respondents,

NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL

DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION’S

CLEAN AIR PROJECT; SOUTH COAST

AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT

DISTRICT; SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY

UNIFIED AIR POLLUTION CONTROL

DISTRICT,

Respondents-Intervenors.

On Petition for Review of an Order of the Environmental Protection Agency Argued and Submitted February 12, 2015—San Francisco, California

Filed March 11, 2015

Before: Mary M. Schroeder, Senior Circuit Judge, Barry G. Silverman, Circuit Judge, and Marvin J. Garbis, Senior District Judge.*

Opinion by Judge Silverman

SUMMARY**

Environmental Law

The panel denied a petition for review of an order of the United States Environmental Protection Agency approving the South Coast Air Quality Management District’s Rule 317 as a revision to California’s…