Judge Garland Typically Deferential to EPA

Chief Judge Merrick Garland, President Barack Obama’s nominee to fill the U.S. Supreme Court seat left vacant by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, has generally been deferential to Environmental Protection Agency regulations, legal observers told Bloomberg BNA March 16.

Garland, who has been a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit since 1997 and chief judge since 2013, has reviewed dozens of environmental law cases, including a challenge to the EPA’s performance standards limiting particulate emissions from new power plants and a Commerce Clause challenge brought by a real estate developer whose construction ...