Law360, New York (May 30, 2012, 5:23 PM ET) -- The Sierra Club and other environmental groups lodged their most recent complaint Wednesday in a lengthy fight against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over a West Virginia mountaintop coal mining permit, arguing the government is violating federal standards by allowing pollution of local waters.
In a fifth supplemental complaint, the environmental groups accuse the Corps of illegally reinstating and modifying a permit allowing mining company Loadout LLC to dump fill material in more than 11,000 feet of streams in the state's Fork Creek Watershed....
Enviros Try To Take Down Army Corps Coal Mining Permit
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