SUGARLOAF v. DEPT. OF ENVIRONMENT

No. 60 Sept. Term 1995.

686 A.2d 605 (1996)

344 Md. 271

SUGARLOAF CITIZENS' ASSOCIATION et al. v. DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT et al.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

December 20, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mick G. Harrison (Richard E. Condit, on brief), Washington, DC, for Petitioner.

Lawrence P. Fletcher-Hill, Assistant Attorney General (Joseph J. Curran, Jr., Attorney General; Ann Marie DeBiase, Assistant Attorney General, on brief), Baltimore, for Appellee.

Deborah E. Jennings (Roger D. Redden, Gina M. Zawitoski, Piper & Marbury, L.L.P., on brief), Baltimore, for Respondent.

Charles W. Thompson, Jr., County Attorney (A. Katherine Hart, Senior Assistant County Attorney, Diane Schwartz Jones, Associate County Attorney, on brief) Rockville, for Montgomery County.

Andrea C. Ferster, Laura D. Middleton, Washington, DC, Amicus Curiae for Montgomery Cty.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, CHASANOW, KARWACKI and BELL, JJ.


ELDRIDGE, Judge.

The dispute in this case concerns the decision of the Maryland Department of the Environment (the Department) to issue two permits which authorized the construction of a solid waste incinerator near Sugarloaf Mountain in Dickerson, Maryland. A group comprised of local landowners, environmental organizations and citizens' groups challenged the Department's decision by filing in the Circuit Court for Montgomery...

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