OHIO POWER COMPANY; Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company, et al., Petitioners,
v.
UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY and Anne M. Gorsuch, Administrator, Respondents.
The COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, (80-3813), Petitioner,
v.
UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY and Anne M. Gorsuch, Administrator, Respondents,
Ohio Power Company and Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Company, Intervenors.
United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued December 6, 1982.
Decided March 22, 1984.
Rehearing and Rehearing Denied May 8, 1984.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Roger Strelow, Leva, Hawes, Sumington, Martin & Oppenheimer, Washington, D.C., E. Donald Elliott, Associate Professor of Law Yale Law School, New Haven, Conn., A. Joseph Dowd, American Electric Power Service Corp., Columbus, Ohio, Arthur D. Rheingold, Phillips, Nizer, Benjamin, Krim & Ballon, New York City, for Ohio Power Co.
Louis E. Tosi, Fuller & Henry, Toledo, Ohio, for Dayton Power & Light Co.
James R. Bieke, Shea & Gardner, Washington, D.C., for Peabody Coal Co.
Douglas R. Blazey, Thomas Y. Au, Harrisburg, Pa., for Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Robert L. Brubaker, Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur, Columbus, Ohio, for Columbus & Southern Ohio Elec. Co., Ohio Edison & Ohio Power Co.
Carol E. Dinkins, Paul Kaplow, Land & Natural Resources Division, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Pollution Control Section, Washington, D.C., Barry Neuman, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Land & Natural Resources Div., Environmental Enforcement Section, Washington, D.C., Mary Gade, EPA Region V, Chicago, Ill., Mary Ann Muirhead, Richard Ossias, Air, Noise & Radiation Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agy., Ronald C. Hausmann, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Land & Natural Resources Div., Pollution Control Section, Washington, D.C., for E.P.A.
Roger Strelow, Swidler, Berlin & Strelow, Chartered, Washington, D.C., for C & SOE, Ohio Power Co., Dayton Power & Light, Austin Powder Co. & Peabody Coal Co.
Douglas R. Blazey, Thomas Au, Asst. Counsel, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Bureau of Regulatory Counsel, Robert Adler, Harrisburg, Pa., for Com. of Pa.
Louis E. Tosi, C. Randolph Light, Fuller, Henry, Hodge & Snyder, Toledo, Ohio, Daniel W. Kemp, Cincinnati, Ohio, for petitioners in No. 76-2090.
John W. Edwards, Lane, Alton & Horst, Columbus, Ohio, amicus curiae for Ohio Mining and Reclamation Ass'n.
William W. Wehr, Freifield, Bruzzese, Wehr, Morland & England, LPA, Stuebenville, Ohio, amicus curiae for Ohio Coal Operators' Ass'n, Inc.
William J. Brown, Atty. Gen. of Ohio, Environmental Law Section, Columbus, Ohio, David E. Northrop, Asst. Atty. Gen., for intervenor, State of Ohio.
James R. Bieke, Shea & Gardner, Washington, D.C., for intervenor Peabody Coal in behalf of Petitioners.
Before EDWARDS, Circuit Judge, PHILLIPS and PECK, Senior Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.
Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied May 8, 1984.
GEORGE CLIFTON EDWARDS, Jr., Circuit Judge.
This appeal concerns the problem of airborne sulphur dioxide emanating from three major power plants located in rural areas in the State of Ohio.1 The pollution of the ambient air by sulphur dioxide (produced by burning high sulphur coal), is a medically recognized threat to human health. This is particularly true as to infants, the...
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