U.S.E.P.A. v. ENVIRONMENTAL WASTE CONTROL INC.

Nos. 89-1865, 89-2197.

917 F.2d 327 (1990)

UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, Plaintiff-Appellee, and Supporters To Oppose Pollution, Incorporated, Intervenor/Plaintiff-Appellee, v. ENVIRONMENTAL WASTE CONTROL, INCORPORATED, doing business as Four County Landfill, Steven W. Shambaugh, James A. Wilkins, West Holding Company, Incorporated, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided October 31, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew B. Baker, Jr., Asst. U.S. Atty., Hammond, Ind., Clifford D. Johnson, Asst. U.S. Atty., South Bend, Ind., Anna Thode, E.P.A., Washington, D.C., Victor A. Franklin, E.P.A., Chicago, Ill., Robert Oakley, F. Henry Habicht, Dept. of Justice, Land & Natural Resources Div., Washington, D.C., for E.P.A.

John C. Hamilton, Doran, Blackmond, Ready, Hamilton & Williams, South Bend, Ind., Charles M. Tebbutt, Syracuse, N.Y., for Supporters To Oppose Pollution, Inc.

James H. Pankow, Jones, Obenchain, Ford, Pankow & Lewis, South Bend, Ind., George W. Pendygraft, George Plews, Carolyn A. Kaye, Pendygraft & Plews, Indianapolis, Ind., for Environmental Waste Control, Inc., and Steven W. Shambaugh, and West Holding Co., Inc.

James H. Pankow, Jones, Obenchain, Ford, Pankow & Lewis, South Bend, Ind., John T. Stahr, John A. Bryson, Dept. of Justice, Land & Natural Resources Div., Washington, D.C., Charles M. Tebbutt, Syracuse, N.Y., for James A. Wilkins.

Daniel B. Dovenbarger, Rubin & Levin, Indianapolis, Ind., for amicus curiae Sierra Club.

Before WOOD, Jr., CUDAHY and COFFEY, Circuit Judges.


CUDAHY, Circuit Judge.

The Environmental Protection Agency, together with an environmental intervenor, Supporters to Oppose Pollution, Inc., brought suit against Environmental Waste Control (and its owners and operators) in connection with a hazardous waste landfill operated by Environmental Waste Control in Indiana. The district court found against Environmental Waste Control, ordered the offending landfill permanently closed...

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