Legal Opinion
Natural Resources Council of Maine v. International Paper Co.
District Court, D. Maine
Decided March 28, 2006No. CV-05-109-B-WPublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER ON DEFENDANT INTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPANY’S MOTION TO DISMISS THE COMPLAINT
WOODCOCK, District Judge.
Nearly two decades after International Paper Company applied to the Environmental Protection Agency to renew its pollution discharge permit, the Maine Department of Environmental Protection finally approved it. All the while, under the terms of a 1985 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) permit, International Paper (IP)’s Jay, Maine paper mill continued to discharge pollutants into the Androscoggin River. Faced with interminable governmental inertia, in 2005, the Natural Resources Council…
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