The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld the 2011 decision by the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to block a permit for the mine issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers due to unacceptable environmental harm it would cause.
U.S. Court of Appeals for D.C. affirms district court; finds U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reasonably and lawfully decided that huge mountaintop removal mine in WV would cause unacceptable environmental harm
The Mingo Logan coal company’s Spruce No. 1 mine—one of the largest mountaintop removal mines ever proposed—would bury over six miles of pristine mountain streams in rubble and destroy thousands of acres of forest. Appalachian ally groups fought back against the mine from the beginning, and for more than a decade succeeded in stalling its…
Amici curiae brief filed by Earthjustice, Appalachian Mountain Advocates, West Virginia Highlands Conservancy, Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, Coal River Mountain Watch, Sierra Club, and Natural Resources Defense Council in support of the Environmental Protection Agency’s veto of the Spruce No. 1 mountaintop removal coal mine in West Virginia.
Movement to stop the destruction picks up after historic EPA action on MTR
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