On behalf of his energy industry clients, William Dawson will seek attorney fees from the Sierra Club. That outcome would add to the victory Dawson, a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Dallas, won after a three-day bench trial.
In a March 28 memorandum opinion and order, U.S. District Judge Walter S. Smith of the Western District of Texas denied the injunctive relief that the Sierra Club sought based on its allegations that opacity limit violations under the federal Clean Air Act occurred at the Big Brown Plant in Freestone County. Defendants Energy Future Holdings and Luminant own the coal-burning plant, and Dawson represented both EFH and Luminant in Sierra Club v. Energy Future Holdings.
