National Mining Association Lawsuit Against EPA Action on Mountaintop Removal Mining Can Proceed

The EPA may have just halted a permit for West Virginia’s largest mountaintop removal coal mine , but all is not green. A Federal judge in DC District Court has given a preliminary ruling on a suit brought about by the National Mining Association that says the EPA may have exceeded its legal authority in the way in which the permitting process for MTR projects was changed . In drafti… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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National Mining Association Lawsuit Against EPA Action on Mountaintop Removal Mining Can Proceed

Posted by on January 19, 2011. Filed under Lifestyle, News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry