Event
Ethyl Corp. v. EPA, 1976
After a 1974 ruling for Ethyl was vacated, the full D.C. Circuit court upheld EPA’s 1973 limits on lead in gasoline.
- Dates
- 20 Dec 1974 – 19 Mar 1976
Connections 5
involved
- Ethyl Corporation petitioner Primary record 1
- E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company petitioner, with PPG Primary record 1
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency the Administrator’s 1973 rule was upheld Primary record 1
caused by
- U.S. phase-out of leaded gasoline, 1973-1996 Primary record 1
appears in
- The Metabolism of Lead in Man in Health and Disease one strand of EPA’s calculations used it Primary record 1
Timeline 1 date
- 20 Dec 1974 – 19 Mar 1976 Ethyl Corp. v. EPA, 1976
Proof 1 source
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Ethyl Corp. v. Environmental Protection Agency, 541 F.2d 1 (D.C. Cir. 1976) (en banc), U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (text via the Harvard Caselaw Access Project), 19 Mar 1976.
Primary record
supplemental brief of petitioner Ethyl Corporation
supplemental brief of petitioners PPG Industries and E. I. duPont de Nemours & Company
Finding in favor of the Administrator on both grounds, and on all other grounds raised by petitioners, we affirm his determination.
Accordingly, he promulgated regulations that reduce, in step-wise fashion, the lead content of leaded gasoline.
The Administrator leads off his discussion of the relationship between airborne and blood lead levels with a set of calculations based on the experimental work of Kehoe
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