Society of Plastics Industry, Inc. v. County of Suffolk

Hancock, Jr., J.

(dissenting). A county resident may not bring a challenge on environmental grounds to a county local law which produces undifferentiated area-wide environmental effects unless it can show that it suffers a "special injury” which is different in kind or degree from that suffered by the community at large; thus, an assertion of environmental harm potentially available to every resident is insufficient to confer standing (majority opn, at 778). This is the new rule the majority has established in holding that Lawrence Wittman & Co., a Suffolk County (County) resident and…