UNITED STATES v. NATIONAL STEEL CORP.

No. 83-1600.

767 F.2d 1176 (1985)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, and Wayne County Department of Health, Air Pollution Control Division, and Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General For the State of Michigan, Frank J. Kelley ex. rel. Michigan Natural Resources Commission, Michigan Air Pollution Control Commission and Howard A. Tanner, Director of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Intervenors-Appellees, v. NATIONAL STEEL CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided July 26, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas H. West, Hill, Lewis, Adams, Goodrich & Tait, Detroit, Mich., Clyde W. Armstrong, Kevin Abbott, Chester R. Babst, III (argued), Dean A. Calland, Preston T. Scott, Thorp, Reed and Armstrong, Washington, D.C., for defendant-appellant.

Dennis Piper, Robert H. Abrams, Natural Resources Defense Counsel, Ann Arbor, Mich., John Barker (argued), George Lawrence, Environmental Enforcement Service, Washington, D.C., Francis L. Zebot, Asst. U.S. Atty., Detroit, Mich., Peter Veeder, Thorp, Reed & Armstrong, Pittsburgh, Pa., Stuart Freeman, Asst. Atty. Gen., Environmental Protection Div., Lansing, Mich., William C. Achinger, Steven E. Chester, Joseph B. Klein, Wayne County Dept. of Health, Air Pollution Control Div., Detroit, Mich., Peter J. Kelly, U.S.E.P.A., Chicago, Ill., Michael Alushin, Andrew M. Jackson, Office of Gen. Counsel, U.S.E.P.A., Washington, D.C., David G. Hawkins (argued), Natural Resources Defense Council, Washington, D.C., Stephen Schuesler (argued), Asst. Atty. Gen., L. Caruso, Lansing, Mich., for intervenors-appellant.

Before ENGEL and MERRITT, Circuit Judges, and WISEMAN, District Judge.


ENGEL, Circuit Judge.

National Steel Corporation (National) appeals from an order of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan which required National to pay penalties in excess of $5 million for violating a consent decree entered into between National, the United States, and various intervenors in settlement of an air pollution action brought by the United States against National. National appeals...

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