ELR Citation: 47 ELR 20025
No(s). 16-1005 (4th Cir. Feb 17, 2017)

The Fourth Circuit affirmed a district court ruling that upheld a Virginia uranium mining ban on non-federal lands. In the early 1980s, a uranium deposit was discovered in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, on land owned by a mineral company. The Virginia Assembly requested that the state Coal and Energ...