As part of the "Environmental & Energy Cert. Petition Watch" project, in the past week, the following EHS-related petitions have been filed, denied, or granted. For a full list of EHS-related cert. petitions submitted from August 2013 through the present (as of Mar. 30, 2014), click here.
I. FILED
American Fuel & Petrochemical Mfrs. Ass'n v. Corey, No. 13-1149
Lower Court: 9th Cir.
Subject: Commerce Clause
Question(s) Presented: Whether California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard is unconstitutional because it discriminates against out-of-state fuels and regulates interstate and foreign commerce that occurs wholly outside of California.
II. DENIED
State of Alaska v. Jewell, No. 13-562
Lower Court: 9th Cir.
Subject: Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act
Question(s) Presented: (1.) Whether the Ninth Circuit properly held - in conflict with this Court's decisions - that the federal reserved water rights doctrine authorizes the unprecedented federal takeover of Alaska's navigable waters sanctioned by the 1999 Rule. (2.) Whether the Ninth Circuit properly proceeded on the premise - which also conflicts with this Court's decisions - that ANILCA could be interpreted to federalize navigable waters at all given Congress's silence on the Act's application to navigable waters.
III. GRANTED
(None.)
