MOBIL OIL CORP. v. UNITED STATES E.P.A.

No. 83-1047.

716 F.2d 1187 (1983)

MOBIL OIL CORPORATION, a corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY and Valdus Adamkus, Regional Administrator, Region v. United States Environmental Protection Agency, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 14, 1983.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied November 8, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas D. Allen, James M. Mulcahy, Elsie E. Singer, Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellant.

Robert L. Klarquist, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for defendants-appellees.

Before CUMMINGS, Chief Judge, COFFEY, Circuit Judge, and WEIGEL, Senior District Judge.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied November 8, 1983.

CUMMINGS, Chief Judge.

This appeal involves a dispute over the scope of authority the United States Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") enjoys to sample streams of industrial waste that run from a petroleum refinery into a nearby navigable river.

Plaintiff-appellant Mobil Oil Corporation ("Mobil") operates a petroleum refinery near the Des Plaines River, a navigable river in Illinois. Exercising...

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