Attorney General v. John A. Biewer Co.

In a bench trial, judgment was awarded plaintiffs against defendant under the Thomas J. Anderson, Gordon Rockwell Environmental Protection Act of 1970 1 and under the water resources act. 2 Defendant was ordered to take measures to remedy a soil and groundwater pollution problem it caused and to pay civil penalties and damages. Defendant appeals as of right from the trial court’s judgment._

The trial court held defendant liable for polluting the groundwater near defendant’s plant in Schoolcraft, Michigan, with arsenic and chrome. The pollution was caused by defendant in the course of its wood…