Permit requirements under the Clean Water Act apply to state agencies engaging in reclamation efforts.
W. Virginia Highlands Conservancy, Inc. v. Huffman, 09-1474, concerned a challenge to the district court’s grant of an environmental group’s request for declaratory and injunctive relief requiring West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection to obtain National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permits under the Clean Water Act (CWA) for reclamation efforts at abandoned coal mining sites.
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Read the Fourth Circuit’s Full Decision in W. Virginia Highlands Conservancy, Inc. v. Huffman, 09-1474
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