October 01, 2014
A Washington, D.C., federal judge on Tuesday upheld the Environmental Protection Agency's veto of a permit for an Appalachian mountaintop coal mine, deferring to the agency's scientific judgment and ruling that the veto fell within its regulatory powers defined by the Clean Water Act.
May 14, 2012
In an appeal filed Thursday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency moved to stake its claim on regulatory powers under the Clean Water Act that a Washington federal judge rejected in a March decision upholding a coal mining waste discharge permit.
March 23, 2012
Dealing a blow to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's authority, a Washington federal judge ruled Friday that the agency overstepped its bounds when it attempted to invalidate an existing Clean Water Act permit issued to Mingo Logan Coal Co. Inc. to discharge materials into two streams.