Municipality of Monroeville v. Chambers Development Corp.

Opinion by

Judge Craig,

The Municipality of Monroeville appeals from a decree of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, which permanently enjoined Monroeville’s enforcement of its ordinance regulating the days and hours of operation for sanitary landfills. The sole issue for our determination is whether the trial court properly concluded that, through the Solid Waste Management Act,1 the state had preempted the regulation of landfill operations.

The facts, which are not in dispute, indicate that Chambers Development Company operates the only landfill within Monroeville. The landfill has…