Lone Pine Steering Committee v. United States Environmental Protection Agency

DEBEVOISE, District Judge.

I. Nature of the Proceedings

Plaintiffs, Lone Pine Steering Committee and six corporations whose wastes were or may have been disposed of in the Lone Pine Landfill in Freehold, New Jersey (“Lone Pine”), instituted this action against the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) 1 seeking declaratory and injunctive relief relating to the closure of Lone Pine.

Reduced to its bare essentials the complaint alleges that plaintiffs have conducted scientific studies of the Lone Pine site and have developed a remedial plan for the closure of the landfill which…