A West Virginia mining company didn't prove that it would suffer economic harm when the Environmental Protection Agency withdrew a dredge-and-fill permit for a mine waste disposal site, a federal appeals court ruled July 19 (Mingo Logan Coal Co. v. EPA, 2016 BL 230764, D.C. Cir., No. 14-5305, 7/19/16). Mingo Logan Coal Co., which had received a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 2007 to dump waste at three disposal sites in the Appalachian Mountains, had argued that, when the EPA struck down the permit in 2011, it hadn't considered how much financial harm the company would suffer.
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