Opinion ID: 163221
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Failure to Consider Appellees’ “Admissions”

Text: The appellants further claim that the district court failed to consider certain “admissions” by the appellees. We note initially that some of the supposed “admissions” involve possible harm to workers at the facility. The appellants lack standing to make these claims because no TOCDF worker is a named plaintiff and appellants have demonstrated no direct injury to themselves. See Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Envtl. Servs. (TOC), 528 U.S. 167, 181–82 (2000). Other “admissions” involve instances when trace amounts of agent migrated into different areas of TOCDF, the implications of which are certainly open to plausible alternative interpretations. The appellants point to nothing in the record that would indicate that the district court’s interpretation of these “admissions” was implausible–especially given that the migrations were within the plant and thus do not unequivocally evidence a danger to the public. Accordingly, the district court did not clearly err in concluding that these “admissions” did not involve substantial harm to health or the environment. -11-