Another Victory For EPA
EPA has been quite successful in the courts this year. This week they won another victory:
Click here for reuse options!On Tuesday, a federal District Court judge upheld the EPA’s revocation of the West Virginia surface mine’s Clean Water Act (CWA) permit, calling it “reasonable, supported by the record, and based on considerations within EPA’s purview.”
At issue was the agency’s veto of a permit that had previously been issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The drawn-out case — the mine was first proposed in 1997 — received national attention for its potential implications. With this latest development, the Corps may be more hesitant to grant mountaintop removal permits in the future. The EPA vetoed portions of the Corps’ dredge-and-fill permit issued in January 2007. The permit would have allowed Mingo Logan Coal Company, Inc., a subsidiary of Arch Coal Inc., to bury 6.6 miles of natural headwater streams with mining waste.
Copyright 2014 Liberaland
By: Stuart Shapiro
Stuart is a professor and the Director of the Public Policy
program at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers
University. He teaches economics and cost-benefit analysis and studies
regulation in the United States at both the federal and state levels.
Prior to coming to Rutgers, Stuart worked for five years at the Office
of Management and Budget in Washington under Presidents Clinton and
George W. Bush.
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tiredoftea October 4th, 2014 at 16:33
The term “victory” is overstated as VA. suffers from some of the worst mine tailings stream pollution in the nation. Want to drink VA. water? I thought not.
Anomaly 100 October 4th, 2014 at 16:34
You mean West Virginia, right? RIGHT?
Love,
A Virginia resident
tiredoftea October 4th, 2014 at 16:38
Oh,…yeah…I think. You use bottled water, right?
Anomaly 100 October 4th, 2014 at 17:23
Nope.
tiredoftea October 4th, 2014 at 17:56
No worries, you’re probably OK.
tiredoftea October 4th, 2014 at 16:33
The term “victory” is overstated as VA. suffers from some of the worst mine tailings stream pollution in the nation. Want to drink VA. water? I thought not.
Anomaly 100 October 4th, 2014 at 16:34
You mean West Virginia, right? RIGHT?
Love,
A Virginia resident
tiredoftea October 4th, 2014 at 16:38
Oh,…yeah…I think. You use bottled water, right?
Anomaly 100 October 4th, 2014 at 17:23
Nope.
tiredoftea October 4th, 2014 at 17:56
No worries, you’re probably OK.
mmaynard119 October 5th, 2014 at 12:40
I bet Joe Manchin is overjoyed at this ruling. It’s Obama trying to stick to the coal industry again.
mmaynard119 October 5th, 2014 at 12:40
I bet Joe Manchin is overjoyed at this ruling. It’s Obama trying to stick to the coal industry again.