Indiana Department of Environmental Management v. Lake County Solid Waste Management District

OPINION

CRONE, Judge.

Case Summary

The Indiana Department of Environmental Management ("IDEM") and Midwest Medical Solutions, LLC ("Midwest"), appeal the trial court's reversal of a judgment of the Office of Environmental Adjudication ("OEA") in favor of IDEM and Midwest and adverse to the Lake County Solid Waste Management District (the "District"). 1 We reverse.

Issues

IDEM and Midwest raise three issues:

I. Whether the trial court erred in reversing the OEA's judgment and concluding that IDEM must wait on a local waste management district to decide whether there is a "local" need for a waste…