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EPA’s New Enforcement Priorities Target the Energy Extraction Industry
As many interested environmental and industry groups have lauded and bemoaned respectively, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) recently finalized its enforcement priorities for 2011 through 2013. While some goals (namely, new source review, mineral processing, air toxics, and concentrated animal feeding operations) appeared as priorities on the 2008 - 2010 list, EPA has added "energy extraction" pollution as a new enforcement initiative...


West Virginia Legislature Voices Opposition to EPA Intrusion into State Water Quality Rulemaking
EPA has used a number of different approaches in seeking to thwart the issuance of so-called "dredge and fill" permits under Section 404 of the federal Clean Water Act (CWA) for coal mining projects in Appalachia. Perhaps the most well developed to date is the claim that new or expanded mining operations will cause violations of State "narrative" water quality standards, meant to protect general biological, aquatic and other physical systems. In West Virginia, that effort has reached a new level...


MSHA - Whose Plan Is It?
The frequency of this question being posed to coal lawyers has increased dramatically in the past few years. In particular, issues about ventilation and respirable dust compliance as well as extended cuts have frequently been raised in the context of plan disputes. The question that arises from the discussion of these issues is simply "what do we do if we disagree with MSHA about a plan provision?"

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