In re Clean Water Act Rulemaking

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

AMERICAN RIVERS, et al., Plaintiffs, No. C 20-04636 WHA

v.

ANDREW R. WHEELER, Administrator of ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO the United States Environmental Protection INTERVENE Agency, et al., Defendants, and

STATE OF LOUISIANA, et al., Defendant-Intervenors.

19 INTRODUCTION In this Administrative Procedure Act suit against the Environmental Protection Agency, representatives of the oil, gas, and pipeline industries move to intervene in defense of the Administrator’s final rule. Because the intervenors hold substantially different interests than the current government defendants, the motion is GRANTED. STATEMENT In 1972, Congress passed the Clean Water Act “to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the Nation’s waters.” The Environmental Protection Agency authorized Indian tribes as primary players in the national goal to…