Article III Standing for Private Plaintiffs Challenging Greenhouse Gas Regulations

• Main Author: Mank, Bradford C.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Digital USD 2016
• Subjects: Article III; Clean Air Act; CAA; Washington Environmental Council v. Bellon; Massachusetts v. EPA; Center for Biological Diversity v. EPA; Green House Gas; GHG; Murray Energy Corporation v. Gina McCarthy; Administrator of EPA; Environmental Law; Law; McCarthy; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://digital.sandiego.edu/sdlr/vol53/iss2/3; https://digital.sandiego.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1078&context=sdlr

An important unresolved question is whether non-state plaintiffs have standing under Article III of the U.S. Constitution to sue in federal courts in climate change cases. In Massachusetts v. EPA, the Supreme Court held a state government could sue the U.S. government to address climate change issue...