Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards v. Red River Coal Co.

ELR Citation: 45 ELR 20075
No(s). 2:14CV00024 (W.D. Va. Apr 14, 2015) (Jones, J.)

A district court granted summary judgment in favor of a coal company, thereby dismissing environmental groups' CWA claim that the company violated its NPDES permit. The dispute centered on the parties' competing interpretations of a boilerplate condition of all of the company's NPDES permits that pr...