While some other things were happening last week in administrative law, the D.C. Circuit decided four cases of note. The first one involved a (Chevron-free) disagreement over the meaning of the Mining Law of 1872. In Earthworks v. Department of the Interior, a divided panel affirmed the entry of summary judgment for the Interior Department in a […]

The D.C. Circuit released six published opinions last week, including the latest challenge to EPA’s Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program and an appeal involving the scope of the consultant corollary to FOIA Exemption 5. First, in Sinclair Wyoming Refining Co. v. EPA, the court denied several petitions for review of EPA’s RFS rulemaking for 2020, 2021, […]