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Nature of Suit Code: 893
Nature of Suit: Environmental Matters
Cause of Action: 42:7413(b) Clean Air Act

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PAUL R. CORT, State Bar No. 184336 

ELIZABETH B. FORSYTH, State Bar No. 288311 

Earthjustice 

50 California Street 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

eforsyth@earthjustice.org 

pcort@earthjustice.org 

Tel: 415-217-2000/Fax: 415-217-2040 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs Sierra Club, Center 

for Biological Diversity, WildEarth Guardians, 

Medical Advocates for Healthy Air, and 

Physicians for Social Responsibility – Los Angeles 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO/OAKLAND DIVISION 

SIERRA CLUB, CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL 

DIVERSITY, WILDEARTH GUARDIANS, 

MEDICAL ADVOCATES FOR HEALTHY AIR, 

and PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL 

RESPONSIBILITY – LOS ANGELES, 

 Plaintiffs, 

 v. 

UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL 

PROTECTION AGENCY; GINA MCCARTHY, 

in her official capacity as Administrator of the 

United States Environmental Protection Agency; 

and ALEXIS STRAUSS, in her official capacity 

as Acting Regional Administrator of the United 

States Environmental Protection Agency, 

 Defendants, and 

SOUTH COAST AIR QUALITY 

MANAGEMENT DISTRICT, 

Defendant-Intervenor. 

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Case No: 3:14-cv-4596-EMC 

STIPULATION OF 

DISMISSAL WITHOUT 

PREJUDICE 

 

 

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STIPULATION OF DISMISSAL WITHOUT PREJUDICE 

 WHEREAS Plaintiffs’ First Amended Complaint alleges that, pursuant to the Clean Air 

Act, Defendants United States Environmental Protection Agency; Gina McCarthy, in her 

official capacity as Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency; and 

Alexis Strauss,1

 in her official capacity as Acting Regional Administrator of Region IX of the 

United States Environmental Protection Agency (collectively, “EPA”) was required to make a 

finding that California’s Los Angeles-South Coast Air Basin (“South Coast”) had failed to 

come into attainment with EPA’s 1997 fine particulate matter pollution standards by the 

applicable attainment date; 

 WHEREAS on July 8, 2016, Defendant determined that the South Coast has attained 

the 1997 fine particulate matter pollution National Ambient Air Quality Standards (“NAAQS”) 

based on current air quality data, Final Rule, 81 Fed. Reg. 48,350 (July 25, 2016); 

 WHEREAS based on EPA’s Clean Data Determination, Plaintiffs no longer intend to 

pursue their claim against EPA for failure to find that the South Coast had failed to come into 

attainment with EPA’s 1997 fine particulate matter pollution standards by the applicable 

attainment date; and 

 WHEREAS, if future air quality data show that the South Coast begins to violate the 

1997 fine particulate matter pollution standards again, Plaintiffs may decide to pursue available 

legal remedies. 

 THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED by and between the parties and their 

counsel of record that this case shall be dismissed without prejudice pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 

41(a)(1)(A)(ii). 

 

 

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 Pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 25(d), Acting Regional Administrator Alexis Strauss, is substituted 

for the named Regional Administrator, Jared Blumenfeld. 

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Respectfully submitted, 

Date: July 26, 2016 

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ELIZABETH B. FORSYTH, State Bar No. 

288311 

PAUL R. CORT, State Bar No. 184336 

Earthjustice 

50 California Street 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

eforsyth@earthjustice.org 

pcort@earthjustice.org 

Tel: 415-217-2000/Fax: 415-217-2040 

 Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

/s/ Leslie M. Hill (with permission) 

LESLIE M. HILL (D.C. Bar No. 476008) 

U.S. Department of Justice 

Environment & Natural Resources Division 

Environmental Defense Section 

601 D Street N.W., Suite 8000 

Washington D.C. 20004 

Leslie.Hill@usdoj.gov 

Telephone (202) 514-0375 

Facsimile (202) 514-8865 

Attorneys for Defendants 

/s/ Barbara Baird (with permission) 

BARBARA BAIRD 

(SBN 081507) Chief Deputy Counsel 

KURT WIESE 

(SBN 127251) General Counsel 

SOUTH COAST AIR QUALITY 

MANAGEMENT DISTRICT 

21865 Copley Drive 

Diamond Bar, CA 91765 

Phone: (909) 396-3458; Fax (909) 296-2961 

Attorneys for Defendant-Intervenor SCAQMD 

 Dated: 7/26/2016

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NITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Edward M. Chen

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