The Anaconda Company, a Montana Corporation v. William D. Ruckelshaus, Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency

WILLIAM E. DOYLE, Circuit Judge.

This is an action instituted in the United States District Court for Colorado by Anaconda Copper Company of Butte, Montana, seeking injunctive relief against various officials of the Environmental Protection Agency. Plaintiff sought relief against the promulgation of a proposed rule controlling emissions of sulfur oxide in Deer Lodge *1303County, Montana unless and until defendants-appellants conduct an adjudicatory hearing and unless and until it promulgates an environmental impact statement. The district court granted the requested relief in an extensive opinion…