Court Hands EPA Another Defeat

The Environmental Protection Agency has taken another defeat in court:

A federal judge says the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency exceeded its authority in revoking permits for what could now become West Virginia‘s largest mountaintop removal mine.

In a ruling Friday, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson in Washington, D.C., ruled in favor of St. Louis-based Arch.

She declares a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers water pollution permit for the Spruce No. 1 mine in Logan County is “valid and in full force.”

Arch spokeswoman Kim Link says the company is pleased with the decision.

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The EPA had overruled the Army Corps of Engineers in January 2011. Last week, the EPA lost another major battle in the Supreme Court.

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