a plan for managing the potential liability, and submit the information to the agency. See Minn.Stat. § 115A.471. Defendants argue that NSWMA does not have standing to challenge section 115A.471. This court’s jurisdiction is limited by Article III of the U.S. Constitution, which limits the judicial power of the federal courts to “cases” and “controversies.” U.S. Const. art. III, § 2, cl. 1. A threshold question in every case is whether the plaintiff has standing to invoke the jurisdiction of the federal courts. The standing doctrine is “an essential and unchanging part of the ease-or-controversy requirement of Article III.” Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife, 504 U.S. 555, 560, 561, 112 S.Ct. 2130, 2136, 2136-37, 119 L.Ed.2d 351 (1992); Mausolf v. Babbitt, 85 F.3d 1295, 1301 (8th Cir.1996) (<HOLDING>). To establish standing within the
holding that standing is an essential and unchanging part of the easeorcontroversy requirement of article iii recognizing associational standing when members would have standing in own right recognizing that standing requirement is indispensable part of case recognizing that the case or controversy requirement for standing is no less strict in a declaratory judgment proceeding than in any suit where other relief is sought holding that standing existed