Montana’s Rosebud Coal Mine Expansion Proceeds Despite Lawsuit

摘要

Environmental groups waited too long to seek a court order to block Westmoreland RosebudMining LLC’s operations at an expanded coal mine in Montana in an effort to save an endangeredfish, a federal court in the state ruled.The Department of the Interior’s Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement approvedthe Rosebud mine expansion in June 2019, but the environmentalists didn’t file their motion for apreliminary injunction until August 2020, according to the U.S. District Court for the District ofMontana.