A ruling in a case involving Mingo Logan Coal could have implications for similar cases down the road, some legal sources say.
On July 19, a three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upheld a lower-court ruling that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency properly met its obligations under the Administrative Procedures Act (APA) in its decision to withdraw a Clean Water Act (CWA) dredge-and-fill permit on mountaintop mining projects in West Virginia.