ENV. PROT. AGENCY v. POLL. CONT. BD.

No. 63062.

115 Ill.2d 65 (1986)

503 N.E.2d 343

THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, Appellant, v. THE POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD et al. (Waste Management, Inc., Appellee).

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed December 19, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General, of Springfield (Roma J. Stewart, Solicitor General, and Robert E. Davy, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, of Chicago, of counsel), for the appellant.

Dixie L. Laswell and Andrew H. Perellis, of Gessler, Wexler, Flynn, Laswell & Fleischmann, Ltd., of Chicago, for appellee Waste Management, Inc.


Judgment affirmed.

JUSTICE MORAN delivered the opinion of the court:

Waste Management, Inc. (WMI), applied to the Environmental Protection Agency (the Agency) for an operating permit to open a new hazardous-waste-disposal trench at its Environmental Sanitary Landfill, Inc. (ESL), site in Elwood, Illinois. WMI also applied for 599 supplemental permits to dispose of certain hazardous-waste products, known as supplemental waste streams, into the trench. Finally...

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