ELR Citation: ELR 20255
No(s). 05-70785 (9th Cir. Oct 4, 2007)

The Ninth Circuit vacated a national pollutant discharge elimination system permit the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued to a mining company allowing it to discharge copper into Arizona's Pinto Creek, a waterbody already in excess of water quality standards for copper. The applicable...