Lonza, Inc. v. Pollution Control Board

This action was brought by the Environmental Protection Agency against two respondents, Ashland Chemical Company and Baird Chemical (now Lonza, Inc.), by a complaint filed on May 1, 1972, alleging violations of section 9(a) of the Environmental Protection Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1971, ch. 111%, par. 1009(a)) by causing air pollution in the form of odor contaminants either alone or in combination with other sources at their adjacent plants near Mapleton, Peoria County, Illinois. The Board, after a hearing, ordered each respondent to pay a $10,000 fine, submit a program for abatement of then odor…