The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a coal company
fighting to reinstate a water pollution permit for a massive West Virginia
The justices say they will not disturb a federal appeals court
ruling that the Environmental Protection Agency acted within its authority in
2011 when it retroactively vetoed a permit issued four years earlier by the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
St. Louis-based Arch Coal Inc. and its Mingo Logan Coal Co.
subsidiary challenged the appellate ruling concerning the mountaintop removal
coal mine in West Virginia 's Logan County
The case now goes back to a federal district court in Washington
The case is Mingo Logan Coal Co. v. EPA, 13-599.
