Processing & Books, Inc. v. Pollution Control Board

A complaint filed by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency with the Illinois Pollution Control Board on April 7, 1972, charged that the respondents, Processing and Books, Inc., an Illinois corporation, and National Mellody Farm Fresh Egg Company, its wholly owned subsidiary, had caused air pollution consisting of odors from chicken manure and incinerators used to dispose of dead chickens, in violation of section 9(a) of the Environmental Protection Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1971, ch. 1111/2, par. 1009(a)). The Board fined the respondents $3,000 and entered a cease and desist order.

The…