Legal Opinion
Ellis v. Gallatin Steel Co.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided October 26, 2004No. 02-6421, 02-6422, 02-6429, 02-6478PublishedCited by 80 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SUTTON, Circuit Judge.
Gallatin Steel Company manufactures steel and Harsco Corporation processes slag (a steel byproduct) on adjacent pieces of property in rural Kentucky. In addition to steel and slag, both operations produce a considerable amount of dust, what has come to be known in the regulatory world as “fugitive dust,” a phrase that loses its redundancy when applied to dust particles that migrate from one piece of property to another. Unhappily for the Ellis family and for Laverne Brashear, the dust particles from these manufacturing operations migrated to the Ellis family farm…
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