Cbe

FILED

NOT FOR PUBLICATION JUL 06 2015

MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

COMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER No. 12-72358 ENVIRONMENT, a California non-profit organization and CALIFORNIA COMMUNITIES AGAINST TOXICS, an unincorporated association, MEMORANDUM*

Petitioners,

v.

U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY; et al.,

Respondents,

SOUTH COAST AIR QUALITY

MANAGEMENT DISTRICT,

Respondent-Intervenor.

On Petition for Review of an Order of the United States Environmental Protection Agency

Argued and Submitted October 22, 2014 Pasadena, California

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3. Before: THOMAS, Chief Judge and KOZINSKI and GOULD, Circuit Judges.

Petitioners challenge the Environmental Protection Agency’s (“EPA”)

approval of South Coast Air Quality Management District (“District”) Rule 1315

into the California State Implementation Plan (“SIP”). Rule 1315 specifies the

district’s procedures for tracking and banking emissions reductions for later…