U.S. Supreme Court,
Environmental & Energy
Jul. 6, 2022
West Virginia v. EPA
Beth Hummer
Counsel
Hanson Bridgett LLP
Beth is a highly regarded attorney who focuses on litigation of environmental contamination and real estate matters. Beth works on some of the highest-profile environmental cases in the state of California.
West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency, 597 U.S. 2347278 (2022), should not have been decided. The dispute was not justiciable; there was no case or controversy.
The Attorney General of West Virginia and seventeen other state attorneys general sought an advisory opinion on the Environmental Protection Agency’s regulatory authority, using the 2015 Clean Power Plan rule that a) never went into effect, and b) never will go into effe...
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