Living Rivers v. U.S. Oil Sands, Inc.

ELR Citation: 44 ELR 20140
No(s). 20121009 (Utah Jun 24, 2014)

The Supreme Court of Utah dismissed an environmental group's lawsuit challenging the state's issuance of a discharge permit for a tar sands bitumen-extraction project in the Uintah Basin. The original discharge permit was granted by the Utah Division of Water Quality (DWQ) in 2008. In 2011, the Utah...