EDITORIAL: Retroactive revocation will end coal mining
(MCT) After lengthy review, the Army Corps of Engineers in 2007 issued a permit under the Clean Water Act for the Spruce No. 1 mine in Logan County, which Arch Coal Inc. had begun planning in 1998.
The Environmental Protection Agency did not object.
But a change in administrations brought a new EPA administrator who saw no limit to her authority. In January 2011, the EPA rescinded the other agency’s permit, in what a federal judge would l...
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The Charleston Daily Mail
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