ELR Citation: ELR 20593
No(s). 85 C 6951 (N.D. Ill. Feb 18, 1986)

The court rules that the Illinois Environmental Protection Act (IEPA) preempts the field of sanitary landfill regulation in the state. The court, addressing sua sponte possible limits on its ability to hear the state-law preemption claim, holds that abstension is not appropriate, because there is co...