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Supreme Court to hear major case on power of federal agencies

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Justice John Paul Stevens set out a two-part test for courts to review an agency’s interpretation of a statute it administers. If it has not, the court must uphold the agency’s interpretation of the statute as long as it is reasonable. In the Supreme Court, the fisheries are represented by former U.S.

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July 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The Court held that the provision used “extension” in its “temporal sense,” but that the statute did not impose a “continuity requirement” and instead allowed small refineries to apply for hardship extensions “at any time.” Among the inadequacies found by the court was Ecology’s failure to consider climate change in drafting the permits.

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