Alaska Community Action on Toxics v. Aurora Energy Services LLC

ELR Citation: 41 ELR 20072
No(s). 3:09-cv-00255 (D. Alaska Jan 10, 2011)

A district court held that environmental groups may go forward with their claims that coal-contaminated dust, slurry, water, and snow is being discharged from a coal loading facility into a bay in violation of the CWA. Although the facility has an NPDES permit, the groups argued that the per...