DJL Farm LLC v. United States EPA

摘要

Challenge by property owners to underground injection control permits issued by Environmental Protection Agency under Safe Drinking Water Act to company for carbon sequestration are moot, because: (1) company abandoned development of project and permits are expired; (2) even though owners separately challenged Environmental Appeals Board decision upholding permits, EAB decision is not separately reviewable order but prerequisite to bringing challenge to permits; (3) expired permits cannot be transferred, reissued, or used as basis for issuing new permits; and (4) even if company decides in future to develop project on same location it would have to initiate new regulatory process.