State v. Harenda Enterprises, Inc.

¶ 1. Harenda Enterprises, Inc., appeals the trial court's grant of summary judgment to the State of Wisconsin imposing environmental penalties and ancillary surcharges in connection with Harenda's inspection of asbestos at the Milwaukee Auditorium under a contract with the Wisconsin Center District's renovation of the Auditorium. See Wxs. Stat. § 285.87 (air-pollution penalties). The crux of this appeal turns on the language of the applicable federal regulation, adopted by the State, and whether Harenda's testing for asbestos contamination at what the trial court referred to in its order as…