Overshadowed Environmental Cases Could impact Mining

摘要

In the late June 2012 uproar about the Supreme Court's decision in the cases challenging the constitutionality of the Patient Care Affordability Act, also called "Obamacare," even dedicated Court watchers may have missed the Court's decision to also hear three important environmental cases from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in its next term. The outcome of the Supreme Court's decisions in those three cases may ttrongly affect EPA clean water act regulation of the mining, timber and construction industries.