ELR Citation: ELR 20070
No(s). 3:05-0784 (S.D. W. Va. Mar 23, 2007)

A district court held that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers violated the Clean Water Act and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) in issuing four permits to fill headwater streams in conjunction with mountaintop removal coal mining. The permits would have allowed the stripping of about 3,800 acr...