Commonwealth v. Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp.

Opinion by

President Judge Bowman,

This matter is before us on a petition for enforcement of an administrative order brought by Department of Environmental Resources (DER).

In June 1972, respondent, Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corporation, applied for a variance from minimum standards relating to particulate matter emissions into the atmosphere as established by DER regulations, 25 Pa. Code §§123.13, 123.41. The variance sought an extension until April 30, 1973, of the time for compliance with the standards set in the aforementioned regulations as applied to respondent’s sintering plant in…