Montana Environmental Information Center v. Montana Department of Environmental Quality

ELR Citation: 46 ELR 20058
No(s). 2012-1075 (Mont. Dist. Ct. Mar 14, 2016)

A Montana court vacated and remanded a water discharge permit that the state's environmental agency issued to a coal mine in southeastern Montana. The agency's decisions are arbitrary and not supported by the law, and when viewed in its totality, the record demonstrates clear errors of judgment with...