United States v. Denver, City & County of

ELR Citation: ELR 21110
No(s). 94-D-2004 (D. Colo. Feb 22, 1996)

The court holds that a municipal cease-and-desist order requiring the owner of part of a Superfund site to stop performing a remedy selected by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) violates the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution. The city claimed that the remedy, which involved soli...