Alabama Department of Environmental Management v. Association of Regional Councils

CRAWLEY, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal from a declaratory judgment. The Association of Regional Councils (“ARC”) sued the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (“ADEM”), alleging that a lack of data and guidelines supplied by ADEM, as well as a lack of funding at the disposal of ARC’s member regional commissions,1 compelled a moratorium on the regional commissions’ performance of their statutory duty to issue “statements of consistency” to parties seeking approval of proposed solid-waste-disposal sites.2

The trial court entered a judgment declaring that the ARC member commissions…