Legal Opinion
United States v. Comunidades Unidas Contra La Contaminacion
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 28, 2000No. 99-1752PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge.
This is an end note to wide-ranging, lengthy, and technically complex litigation begun in 1993 by the United States against the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) for violations of some five federal environmental statutes committed at its four electric generating power plants and one transmission center. The two parties finally succeeded in negotiating an agreement that was converted by district court approval into a consent decree in 1999.
In the course of the proceedings, an organization named Comunidades Unidas Contra la Contaminación (CUCCo),…
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