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PORTLAND PIPE LINE CORP. v. ENVIRONMENTAL IMP. COM'N

307 A.2d 1 (1973)

PORTLAND PIPE LINE CORPORATION v. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPROVEMENT COMMISSION et al., and AMERICAN OIL COMPANY et al., v. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPROVEMENT COMMISSION et als.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

June 4, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pierce, Atwood, Scribner, Allen & McKusick, by Gerald M. Amero, Fred C. Scribner, Jr., Bruce A. Coggeshall, Portland, for plaintiffs.

E. Stephen Murray, John M. R. Paterson, Asst. Attys. Gen., Augusta, Covington & Burling by Roberts B. Owen, Washington, D. C., William H. Allen, Arlington, Va., Richard B. Herzog, Washington, D. C., for defendants.

Before DUFRESNE, C. J., and WEBBER, WEATHERBEE, POMEROY, WERNICK and ARCHIBALD, JJ.

POMEROY, Justice.

In the period from about 1960 to 1973 peoples throughout the world have wakened to the awful truth that if man continues random destruction of his natural environment, his natural environment will ultimately destroy him.

This destruction of the environment is not confined to the land alone, or the sea alone or the air alone.

Inspired by this sudden consciousness of the perils of pollution, legislative bodies everywhere have passed...

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