North Shore Gas Company v. Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · Decided 1991-04-25

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POSNER, Circuit Judge. This is a needlessly complicated case; we shall prune it ruthlessly. The Environmental Protection Agency identified a portion of Waukegan Harbor, on Lake Michigan, as a “Superfund site,” identified Outboard Marine Corporation as being responsible for the contamination of the site, and ordered Outboard to clean it up. Outboard resisted, the EPA sued, and…

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