Weekly Cases Update Volume 44, Issue 10

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Volume 44, Issue 24

ELR 20185307602(Mich. Ct. App., )

A Michigan appellate court upheld the state environmental agency's decision to grant mining and discharge permits to a company to develop an underground mine to extract nickel and copper from the sulfide ores beneath the headwaters of the Salmon Trout River.

Keywords:
Regulations, Water pollution
ELR 20186308366(Mich. Ct. App., )

A Michigan appellate court upheld the state environmental agency's decision to grant a groundwater discharge permit to a company in connection with its plan to develop an underground mine to extract nickel and copper from the sulfide ores beneath the headwaters of the Salmon Trout River.

Keywords:
Regulations, Water pollution
ELR 2018713-2830(8th Cir., )

The Eighth Circuit upheld the dismissal of a company's breach of contract and contribution claims against a railroad in connection with a lead-contaminated Superfund site in Omaha, Nebraska.

Keywords:
Claims barred
ELR 2018411-73342, -73356(9th Cir., )

The Ninth Circuit vacated and remanded EPA's decision to issue a PSD permit allowing a power company to build and operate a 600 megawatt natural gas-fired power plant.

Keywords:
Permits
ELR 2018813-6214(6th Cir., )

The Sixth Circuit, in an unpublished opinion, upheld the dismissal of claims that FHwA violated NEPA when it approved a $2.6 billion construction and transportation management project designed to improve mobility across the Ohio River in Louisville, Kentucky.

Keywords:
Construction