DRESSER INDUSTRIES v. COM., DER


146 Pa.Commw. 114 (1992)

604 A.2d 1177

DRESSER INDUSTRIES, INC., Petitioner, v. COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES, Respondent.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided March 2, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John P. Krill, Jr., Kirkpatrick & Lockhart, Harrisburg, Pa., for petitioner.

Michael J. Heilman, Asst. Counsel, for respondent.

Before CRAIG, President Judge, KELLEY, J., and LORD, Senior Judge.


LORD, Senior Judge.

This case involves the unusual situation where the defendant, a Commonwealth agency, the Department of Environmental Resources (DER), which is given the statutory responsibility for all aspects of protection of the Commonwealth's environmental and natural resources, is sued in this Court as a landowner for violating the very act it is charged with enforcing and wherein it is specifically alleged that DER permitted acid drainage from the land which...

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