CLEAN AIR COUNCIL v. DEP'T OF ENVTL. PROT.

No. 73 MAP 2021 No. 74 MAP 2021.

289 A.3d 928 (2023)

CLEAN AIR COUNCIL, The Delaware Riverkeeper Network, and Mountain Watershed Association, Inc., Appellants v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION and Sunoco Pipeline, L.P., Appellees. Stephen and Ellen Gerhart v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Environmental Protection and Sunoco Pipeline, L.P. Appeal of: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Environmental Protection.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided: February 22, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George A. Bibikos, Esq. , GA BIBIKOS LLC, Terry Robert Bossert, Esq. , Post & Schell PC, Christopher R. Nestor, Esq. , David R. Overstreet, Esq. , for Amici Curiae Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry and Marcellus Shale Coalition.

Abigail M. Jones, Esq. , Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future, Angela Mae Kilbert, Esq. , PennFuture, for Amicus Curiae PennFuture.

Alexander George Bomstein, Esq. , Clean Air Council, Paul Jay Cohen II, Esq. , for Appellant Clean Air Council.

Mark Landis Freed, Esq. , Curtin Reefner LLP, Kacy Cummings Manahan, Esq. , Delaware Riverkeeper Network, for Appellant Delaware Riverkeeper Network,

Melissa Marshall, Esq. , Mountain Watershed Association, for Appellant Mountain Watershed Association.

Joseph Otis Minott, Esq. , Kathryn Lee Urbanowicz, Esq. , Clean Air Council, for Appellant Clean Air Council.

Robert L. Byer, Esq. , George John Kroculick, Esq. , Leah Ariel Mintz, Esq. , Duane Morris LLP, Robert David Fox, Esq. , Aaron Shawn Mapes, Esq. , Post Sr Schell, PC, Diana Amaral Silva, Esq. , Manko, Gold, Katcher & Fox, LLP, for Appellee Sunoco Pipeline L.P.

William Joseph Gerlach Jr., Esq. , Margaret O'Mara Murphy, Esq. , Curtis Sullivan, Esq. , Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, George Jugovic Jr., Esq. , Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Transportation, Diana Amaral Silva, Esq. , Manko, Gold, Katcher & Fox, LLP, for Appellee Department of Environmental Protection.

Abigail M. Jones, Esq. , Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future, for Amicus Curiae Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future.

George Jugovic Jr., Esq. , Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Transportation, Curtis Sullivan, Esq. , Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, for Appellant Department of Environmental Protection.

Richard Alan Raiders, Esq. , Raiders Law PC, for Appellees Gerhart, Stephen and Gerhart, Ellen.

BAER, C.J., TODD, DONOHUE, DOUGHERTY, WECHT, MUNDY, BROBSON, JJ.


OPINION

The General Assembly has charged the Department of Environmental Protection ("DEP") with the authority to grant permits for activities regulated under the Clean Streams Law ("CSL").1 The principal responsibility for ensuring that permits have been issued properly...

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