Legal Opinion
United States v. EME Homer City Generation, L.P
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided August 21, 2013No. 11-4406, 11-4407, 11-4408PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SMITH, Circuit Judge.
The owners of a coal-fired power plant failed both to obtain a preconstruction permit and to install certain pollution-control technology before making changes to the plant. The Environmental Protection Agency and several states say the owners were required to do so. But the EPA 1 did not cry foul until more than a decade after the changes, well after the owners had sold the plant. Now the EPA wants to force the former owners to obtain the missing preconstruction permit and to install the missing pollution controls on a plant they no longer own or operate. And they…
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