ELR Citation: 48 ELR 20053
No(s). 6 MAP 2017 (Sup. Ct. Pa. Mar 28, 2018)

Pennsylvania's highest court held that the $10,000/day civil penalty under the Clean Streams Law does not apply to each day that pollutants leaked from an impoundment remain in the groundwater and then leach into other waters of the Commonwealth. The case arose after the state environmental agency a...