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17 Mar 2014, 4:37 am
” In short, NEPA review of Corps § 404 permitting decisions cannot serve as a proxy referendum on the costs and benefits of mountaintop removal mining. [read post]
1 May 2013, 1:49 pm
Army Corps of Engineers (Corps), and the Department of the Interior signed a Memorandum of Understanding outlining a series of administrative actions under these laws to reduce the harmful environmental impacts of mountaintop mining and surface coal mining in Appalachia. [read post]
24 Mar 2009, 8:11 am
Army Corps of Engineers expressing serious concerns about the need to reduce the potential harmful impacts on water quality caused by certain types of coal mining practices, such as mountaintop mining. [read post]
6 Jan 2010, 1:48 pm
Access EPA's Mountaintop Mining website for background (click here). [read post]
28 Feb 2012, 7:01 pm
However, the Corps of Engineers may implement a policy waiving the amount of stream that can be buried under mountaintop soil if the Corp of Engineers concludes that the proposal before them would have little impact. [read post]
24 Mar 2007, 6:10 am
The anti-mountaintop mining removal people are proud to post this opinion from Judge Chambers of the S.D. [read post]
22 May 2009, 11:29 am
EPA has reviewed 48 proposed permits for mountaintop removal operations under the Clean Water Act. [read post]
20 Oct 2009, 4:17 pm
On October 16, 2009, EPA drew a line in the sand regarding mountaintop mining. [read post]
11 Jun 2009, 8:06 am
EPA, Department of the Interior (DOI) and Army Corps of Engineers. [read post]
21 Jul 2011, 12:21 pm
The Clean Water Act sets up an intricate state-federal partnership for NPDES permits, and a Corps of Engineers-EPA partnership for § 404. [read post]
14 Jan 2011, 12:47 pm
The mountaintop destruction industry has been winning most of these battles in the last two presidential administrations — both the Clinton and Bush administrations backed the regulations that assigned CWA permitting responsibility for mountaintop destruction to the Corps of Engineers instead of EPA. [read post]
19 Oct 2011, 4:41 pm
The attorneys claimed that the Army Corps of Engineers never considered the mine's impact on water quality, did not seek public opinion on aspects of the permit, and failed to consider scientific evidence of the bad health effects caused by mountaintop removal. [read post]
22 Jul 2016, 7:18 am
Circuit affirmed EPA’s authority to withdrawal approval of mountaintop mining disposal sites, even after the Army Corps has issued a Section 404 permit. [read post]
17 Feb 2009, 8:32 am
This fight is not over until mountaintop removal mining is over. [read post]
23 Mar 2012, 8:10 pm
Regular readers of this blog know that on January 13, 2011, EPA vetoed a Clean Water Act section 404 permit issued by the Corp of Engineers for valley fill at the Spruce No. 1 mountaintop removal mine project in West Virginia. [read post]
10 Mar 2009, 4:40 pm
Mountaintop removal mining results in the deposit of large amounts of "overburden"—excess rock and soil blasted from the mountaintops—in nearby valleys. [read post]
30 Apr 2010, 3:22 pm
Army Corps of Engineers ("Corps") issued the permit. [read post]
4 Apr 2011, 2:24 pm
EPA described the memorandum as clarifying how it would review requests for Clean Water Act permits in support of mountaintop removal mining and its expectations of state permitting agencies and the Corps of Engineers. [read post]
26 Jun 2013, 8:53 am
The Mingo permit was issued in conjunction with one of the largest mountaintop coal mining projects ever authorized in West Virginia. [read post]
7 Oct 2011, 8:03 pm
District Judge Reggie Walton didn’t leave much to the imagination Thursday as he ruled in favor of mining companies and against the EPA — and, by association, the Army Corps of Engineers – in a case involving an additional screening process for mountaintop mining permitds. [read post]
