Homestake Mining Co. v. United States

ELR Citation: ELR 20072
No(s). 78-5027 (D.S.D. Oct 16, 1979)

The court upholds the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) approval of South Dakota's action, as part of its revised water quality standards, designating as a cold water permanent fishery, the creek into which plaintiff indirectly discharges mining wastes. The statutory language and purposes as...