SOUTH CAMDEN CITIZENS v. NEW JERSEY DEPT.

Nos. 01-2224, 01-2296.

274 F.3d 771 (2001)

SOUTH CAMDEN CITIZENS IN ACTION; Geneva Sanders; Pauline Woods; Barbara Pfeifer; Julita Gilliard; Oscar Lisboa; Shirley Rios; Phyllis Holmes; Gwen Peterson; Latoya Cooper; Julio Lugo, v. NEW JERSEY DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; Robert C. Shinn, Jr., Commissioner of the NJ Dept. of Environmental Protection, in his official capacity St. Lawrence Cement Co., L.L.C., Intervenor in D.C., Appellant. South Camden Citizens in Action; Geneva Sanders; Pauline Woods; Barbara Pfeifer; Julita Gilliard; Oscar Lisboa; Shirley Rios; Phyllis Holmes; Gwen Peterson; Latoya Cooper; Julio Lugo, v. New Jersey Department Of Environmental Protection; Robert C. Shinn, Jr., Commissioner of the NJ Dept. of Environmental Protection, in his official capacity St. Lawrence Cement Co., L.L.C., Intervenor in D.C., New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection; Robert C. Shinn, Jr., Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Filed December 17, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Olga D. Pomar (argued), Camden Regional Legal Services, Camden, NJ, Jerome Balter, Michael Churchill (argued), Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, Luke W. Cole, Center on Race, Poverty & The Environment, San Francisco, CA, Attorneys for appellees South Camden Citizens in Action, Geneva Sanders, Pauline Woods, Barbara Pfeifer, Julita Gilliard, Oscar Lisboa, Shirley Rios, Phyllis Holmes, Gwen Peterson, Latoya Cooper, Julio Lugo.

John J. Farmer, Jr., Attorney General, Stefanie A. Brand (argued), Deputy Attorney General, Newark, NJ, James M. Murphy, Patrick DeAlmeida, Deputy Attorneys General, Office of Attorney General of New Jersey, Division of Law, Trenton, NJ, Attorneys for appellants New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and Robert C. Shinn Jr.

Brian S. Montag (argued), Catherine A. Trinkle, Pitney, Hardin, Kipp & Szuch, Florham Park, NJ, Attorneys for appellant St. Lawrence Cement Co.

Robin S. Conrad, National Chamber Litigation, Center, Inc., Washington, DC, Robert R. Gasaway, Daryl Joseffer, Kirkland & Ellis, Washington, DC, Attorneys for amicus curiae Chamber of Commerce of the United States.

James M. Sheehan, General Counsel, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA, Attorney for amicus curiae Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

John P. Krill, Jr., Linda J. Shorey, David R. Fine, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP, Harrisburg, PA, Attorneys for amici curiae Robert C. Jubelirer and Matthew J. Ryan.

Frederick F. Fitchett, III, Jill Manuel-Coughlin, Cureton Caplan Hunt, Scaramella & Clark, P.C., Delran, NJ, Attorneys for amicus curiae South Jersey Port Corporation.

Michael W. Steinberg, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Washington, DC, Attorneys for amici curiae National Association of Manufacturers, American Chemistry Council, and Chemistry Industry Council of New Jersey.

Daniel J. Popeo, Richard A. Samp, Washington Legal Foundation, Washington, DC, Attorneys for amici curiae Washington Legal Foundation, National Black Chamber of Commerce, and Allied Educational Foundation.

Robert A. Matthews, Lawrence J. Joseph, McKenna & Cuneo, L.L.P., Washington, DC, Attorneys for amicus curiae American Road & Transportation Builders Association.

John J. Gibbons, Lawrence S. Lustberg, Risa E. Kaufman, Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione, Newark, NJ, Attorneys for amici curiae American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey Foundation and American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania.

Lawrence W. Lindsay, Justin T. Loughry, Loughry and Lindsay, LLC, Camden, NJ, Attorneys for amici curiae Bridge of Peace Community Church, Fettersville Neighborhood Task Force, Concerned Citizens of North Camden, The Greater Camden Unity Coalition, Leavenhouse, South Jersey Campaign for Peace and Justice, Gray Panthers of South Jersey, Dar Al Salaam/Africana Islamic Mission, New Jersey Environmental Federation, and Camden County Green Party.

Thomas Henderson, Janette L. Wipper, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, DC, Robert J. Del Tufo, Ellen O'Connell, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Newark, NJ, Dennis Courtland Hayes, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Baltimore, MD, Ronald Thompson, Garden State Bar Association, Law Office of Ronald Thompson, East Orange, NJ, Ken Kimerling, Margaret Fung, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, New York, NY, Elaine R. Jones, Theodore M. Shaw, Norman J. Chachkin, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., New York, NY, Regina Waynes Joseph, Garden State Bar Association, East Orange, NJ, Attorneys for amici curiae Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund and Garden State Bar Association.

Bradford Mank, University of Cincinnati College of Law, Cincinnati, OH, Attorney for amici curiae Law Professors Concerned about Environmental Justice.

Julie H. Hurwitz, Alma L. Lowry, National Lawyers' Guild/Maurice and Jane Sugar Law Center for Economic and Social Justice, Detroit, MI, Denise Hoffner-Brodsky, San Francisco, CA, Douglas W. Henkin, Michele Host, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, LLP, New York, NY, Attorneys for amici curiae Center for Constitutional Rights, Center for Law in the Public Interest, National Health Law Program, National Senior Citizens Law Center, New York City Coalition to End Lead Poisoning, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, National Lawyers' Guild/Maurice and Jane Sugar Law Center for Social and Economic Justice, Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, and the Sierra Club.

Michelle B. Alvarez, Mark A. Izeman, Eric A. Goldstein, Natural Resources Defense Council, New York, NY, Attorneys for amici curiae Natural Resources Defense Council and Environmental Defense.

Before McKEE, AMBRO, and GREENBERG, Circuit Judges.


OPINION OF THE COURT

GREENBERG, Circuit Judge.

I. OVERVIEW

This matter comes on before this court on appeals by defendant-appellant New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection ("NJDEP") and intervenor-appellant St. Lawrence Cement Co., L.L.C. ("St.Lawrence") from the district court's order granting preliminary injunctive relief to plaintiffs, South Camden Citizens in Action and ten residents of the Waterfront South neighborhood of Camden...

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