McGregor v. Industrial Excess Landfill, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• only Attorney General, through EPA, has authority to seek injunctive relief under Section 106
• “Congress intended to provide the private right of action under RCRA only when the EPA or the state fail[s] to act to remedy the hazardous situation.”
• RCRA “expressly prohibits the filing of private suits” once EPA takes action
• “Only when the federal and state governments fail to act to remedy the situation or file suit in either State or federal courts due to inadequate public resources did Congress envision the need for private citizens to commence actions to correct environmental hazards.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).