Legal Opinion
United States v. Am General Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 1, 1994No. 93-3538PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
The United States has appealed from the district court’s dismissal of a civil penalty action brought against AM General Corporation under the Clean Air Act. 808 F.Supp. 1353 (N.D.Ind.1992). AM General manufactures the Hummer or HumVee — successor to the army jeep — at a plant in Mishawaka, Indiana. The Hummer requires special protective painting the application of which throws off volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that react with other chemicals to create ground-level ozone, a pollutant. At first, because Indiana did not have a state implementation plan for the control of…
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- United States v. AM General Corp.District Court, N.D. Indiana · 1992
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