Environmental & Energy Cert. Petition Watch


Bandza_Alexander_COLORBy: Alexander Bandza

 

The authors of the Corporate Environmental Lawyer Blog are pleased to announce the launch of a new feature, “Environmental & Energy Cert. Petition Watch.”  This feature will provide weekly updates on petitions for certiorari filed with the U.S. Supreme Court that may be of interest to environmental and energy lawyers.  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 December 17, 2013), click here.

                   I.                        FILED

(None.)

                II.                        DENIED

Steel Institute of New York v. City of New York, No. 13-187

Lower Court:  2d. Cir.           

Subject:  Supremacy Clause

Question(s) Presented:  [W]hether state “dual impact” occupational safety and health laws that regulate workers as workers, not as members of the general public, can simultaneously be laws of general applicability that are not subject to federal preemption.

             III.                        GRANTED

(None.)