United States v. Lewis

ORDER AND FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

LAWRENCE, Chief Judge.

I. PROLOGUE

The history of American law during the last few years has been notable for growing public concern over protection of the environment and desire for improving it. Congress, state legislatures and the courts have reacted accordingly. People have become “aware of civilization’s potential destruction from breathing its own polluted air and drinking its own infected water and the immeasurable loss from a silent-spring-like disturbance of nature’s economy,” says the Fifth Circuit in Zabel v. Tabb, 430 F.2d 199, 201,…