Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

ELR Citation: 49 ELR 20005
No(s). 18-C-108 (E.D. Wis. Dec 19, 2018) (Griesbach, J.)

A district court dismissed a Native American tribe's lawsuit challenging a proposed sulfide mine along the banks of the Menominee River, which forms the border between Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The tribe argued, pursuant to the Act's citizen suit provision, that EPA and the U.S. Army...