pollutant
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 547 U.S. 715 - Rapanos v. United States · 2006Most cited · 610 citing opinions
dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt and industrial, municipal, and agricultural waste discharged into water." § 1362(6).
How often courts cite the cases defining “pollutant”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “pollutant” — 776 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 2006–2014
pollutant, other than a greenhouse gas," as the Court effectively concludes in Part II–A, the term "pollutant subject to regulation under [the Act]" in §7475(a)(4) should mean "pollutant, other than a green- 4 UTILITY AIR REGULATORY GROUP v. EPA Opinion of ALITO, J. house gas, subject to regulation under [the Act], and that is subject to regulation under [the Act]." The Court's literalism is selective, and it results in a strange and disjointed regulator