Legal Opinion
North Shore Gas Company v. Environmental Protection Agency
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 25, 1991No. 91-1077, 91-1383PublishedCited by 124 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This is a needlessly complicated case; we shall prune it ruthlessly. The Environmental Protection Agency identified a portion of Waukegan Harbor, on Lake Michigan, as a “Superfund site,” identified Outboard Marine Corporation as being responsible for the contamination of the site, and ordered Outboard to clean it up. Outboard resisted, the EPA sued, and a consent decree was entered containing a clean-up plan. One of the measures required by the plan was that Outboard convert a boat slip at the site into a facility for storing toxic wastes, thus making it unusable by the…
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