Mingo Logan v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

ELR Citation: 44 ELR 20217
No(s). 10-0541 (D.D.C. Sep 30, 2014) (Jackson, J.)

A district court upheld EPA's revocation of a CWA §404 permit allowing a mining company to discharge fill material from its West Virginia mountaintop coal mine into two nearby streams. EPA withdrew the permit's designation of the streams as disposal sites after determining that the discharges would...