Growth Energy, a trade group that had petitioned the E.P.A. in 2009 to raise the standard blend to 15 percent ethanol from 10 percent, said that if accomplished, the change "could help create as many as 136,000 new jobs in the United States".
The actions against Ms. Locy, 48, are unlike any taken by an American court, according to First Amendment lawyers, media associations and companies that have petitioned the court on her behalf.
But Dr. Sidney M. Wolfe, director of Public Citizen's Health Research Group, a Washington advocacy organization that had petitioned the agency to regulate saline implants, said the studies conducted by McGhan and Mentor hardly prove safety and effectiveness.
"Seemingly, this is the opportunity for Con Ed to go ahead and do the right thing and replace the steam generators, and not put the public at any greater risk than they have to be," said James P. Riccio, a nuclear expert at the Critical Mass Energy Project, a nonprofit group founded by Ralph Nader that had petitioned the regulatory commission to keep the plant shut.
Last is the "reconsideration" of several companies that had petitioned to be part of the Lifeline low-income connectivity voucher program.
Among the Plains groups that have petitioned for tribal status, only the Kavalan and Sakizaya have been officially recognized.
"Harassing the SEC, as he's harassed state Attorneys General and the private entities that have petitioned them, is an abuse of the committee's power".
She said that she has petitioned the government for compensation but has been denied benefits.
Molly Matteson, a wildlife biologist with the US Center for Biological Diversity, observes that the group has "petitioned for other bird species that have climate change as one of their threat factors.
