Legal Opinion
Empire Coal Mining & Development, Inc. v. Department of Environmental Resources
Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania
Decided March 18, 1993No. 1286 C.D. 1992PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COLINS, Judge.
Empire Coal Mining and Development, Inc. (Empire), appeals an order of the Environmental Hearing Board (EHB) which dismissed its appeal of an order issued by the Department of Environmental Resources (DER) directing the Mount Carmel Township Supervisors (Township) to close a landfill.
Empire operates a strip mine approximately 150 feet from the toe of the Mt. Carmel Sanitary Landfill (landfill) located in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. The strip mine and the landfill occupy a 60 acre tract which Empire calls the “Jesse Brooks Tract” (site). On July 19, 1990, DER ordered the…
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