PPG INDUSTRIES, INC. v. COSTLE

Nos. 78-3198, 78-3645, 78-3205, 78-3638, 78-3206, 78-3640, 78-3207 and 78-3639.

630 F.2d 462 (1980)

PPG INDUSTRIES, INC., The Ohio Edison Company, The B. F. Goodrich Company, The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, Petitioners, v. Douglas M. COSTLE, Administrator, The United States Environmental Protection Agency, and The United States Environmental Protection Agency, Respondents.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided September 30, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Jeffrey McNealey, Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur, Columbus, Ohio, for petitioners in Nos. 78-3198 and 3645.

V. Peter Wynne, Asst. Counsel, PPG Industries, Inc., Pittsburgh, Pa., for petitioners in No. 78-3198.

Louis E. Tosi, Michael E. McConnell, Fuller, Henry, Hodge & Snyder, Toledo, Ohio, for petitioners in Nos. 78-3207, 3639, 3205, 3206 and 3640.

C. Randolph Light, Fuller, Henry, Hodge & Snyder, Toledo, Ohio, for petitioners in Nos. 78-3639, 3205 and 3638.

James C. Carroll, Ohio Edison Co., Akron, Ohio, for petitioners in Nos. 78-3205 and 3638.

Irving Harris, Cincinnati, Ohio, Fuller, Henry, Hodge & Snyder, Toledo, Ohio, for intervenor Shell, in No. 78-3206.

Ronald C. Hausmann, Gen. Counsel's Office, Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., Paul M. Kaplow, Pollution Control Section, Land & Natural Resources Division, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., Mary Ann Muirhead, Environmental Protection Agency, Region V, Chicago, Ill., for respondents in all cases.

Before EDWARDS, Chief Judge, and PHILLIPS and PECK, Senior Circuit Judges.


JOHN W. PECK, Senior Circuit Judge.

Petitioners are four companies with industrial plants in Summit County, Ohio. They challenge the United States Environmental Protection Agency's designation of part of Summit County as "nonattainment" of the national air-quality standard for the pollutant sulfur dioxide (SO2); by this designation the EPA labeled parts of Summit County, including most notably the City...

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