E.P.A. Appeals Coal Mine Ruling

New York Times: The Obama administration said Monday that it would appeal a federal judge's ruling that the Environmental Protection Agency illegally vetoed a major coal mining project in West Virginia. In a scathing decision in March, the United States District Court judge, Amy Berman Jackson, wrote that the E.P.A.'s unilateral decision in January 2011 to retroactively revoke the waste disposal permit for the Spruce No. 1 mine in Logan County, W.Va., overstepped the agency's authority. Her ruling paved the way...

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