Public Welfare Paramount Invoked By BER 92-4 Environmental Permit Engineer
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/79#Public_Welfare_Paramount_Invoked_By_BER_92-4_Environmental_Permit_Engineer
Properties
Instance of
Applied to
Air pollution standards compliance under 1990 Clean Air Act
Environmental permit issuance for power plant construction
Balancing with
Employment security
Regulatory expedience
Superior's authority
Concrete expression
Engineer A in BER 92-4 invoked the public welfare paramount principle by refusing to issue a construction permit he believed would violate air pollution standards, despite superior's orders to expedite
Confidence
0.97
Importance
high
Interpretation
Holding public welfare paramount required refusal to issue the permit and submission of findings to superior, even when the department subsequently authorized issuance
Invoked by
BER 92-4 Engineer A Environmental Permit Regulatory Engineer
Tension resolution
Public welfare paramount required refusal; withdrawal from the case would have been insufficient
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer A refused to issue the permit and submitted his findings to his superior.
Text references
Engineer A believed the plans as drafted were inadequate to meet the regulation requirements and that outside scrubbers to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions were necessary and without them the issuance of the permit would violate certain air pollution standards
Engineer A refused to issue the permit and submitted his findings to his superior.
it would be ethical for Engineer A to refuse to issue the permit
TTL
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"Engineer A refused to issue the permit and submitted his findings to his superior.",
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Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
79
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-03-01T07:03:58.153835+00:00
First case
79
Generated
2026-03-01T07:03:58.153835+00:00
Attributed to
Case 79 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T07:16:01.181023
Generated by
ProEthica Case 79 Extraction