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Food Law Lab
Resource 18 . 2 . 3
half an hour

National Pork Producers Council v. United States Environmental Protection Agency

Jacob Gersen

Held: PA lacked authority to issue regulation requiring CAFOs that proposed to discharge pollutants to apply for National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit.

United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
635 F.3d 738
No. 08-61093
2011-03-15

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