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202786P.pdf   08/05/2022  United States  v.  Daikin Applied Americas
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  20-2786
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota   
   [PUBLISHED] [Erickson, Author, with Melloy and Kobes, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Environmental law. The proposed intervenors sought leave to 
   intervene in this remediation lawsuit to argue that changes to the consent 
   decree for cleanup of the Reilly Tar site in St. Louis Park, Minnesota 
   would worsen spread of the contaminants and force them to undertake 
   additional remediation efforts on their nearby site; the district court 
   denied their motion to intervene, finding they lacked Article III standing 
   because they could not demonstrate that their alleged harm was traceable 
   to the parties' 2019 Consent Decree or otherwise redressable; even 
   assuming the proposed intervenors could show a concrete injury by having 
   to spend money to remediate their site, there are causality issues that 
   preclude Article III standing, and the district court order is affirmed.