Environmental Defense Fund, Amicus Curiae
The Environmental Defense Fund is a nonprofit environmental advocacy group that focuses on stabilizing the climate and protecting human health. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for Respondents as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on Sept. 22, 2023. Petitioners and their supporters urge the court to make sweeping changes in how federal courts review administrative agencies’ interpretations of statutes and to dispense with the framework expressed in this court’s most-cited administrative law decision. — Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. (1984). The court should decline petitioners’ invitation; it should not overrule Chevron. The…