A West Virginia state environmental protection agency must obtain pollutant discharge permits under the Clean Water Act to pursue its reclamation efforts at abandoned coal mining sites; the CWA has no exception to the permit requirement for state agency reclamation ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Environmental Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III

A Richmond U.S. District Court follows up on an earlier decision construing a 1996 Agreement between the parties’ predecessors and a 2006 Amendment between the parties that involved the sale of a Richmond manufacturing facility that requires a groundwater treatment ...

Tagged with: Environmental Judge Richard L. Williams U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A Charlottesville U.S. District Court grants defendant Environmental Protection Agency’s motion to dismiss plaintiff Historic Green Springs Inc.’s challenge to issuance of a permit that allegedly allowed discharge of treated sewage into an impoundment of a creek. Historic Green Springs ...

Tagged with: Environmental Judge Norman K. Moon U.S. District Court - Western District

The 4th Circuit reverses a district court’s injunction requiring immediate installation of emissions controls at four TVA electricity generating plants, based on the district court’s finding that emissions from TVA plants constituted a public nuisance in North Carolina. The Tennessee ...

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The operator of the largest coal mine in the state will pay $75 million to resolve claims related to its decision more than a decade ago to dump wastewater into mines that were no longer producing coal. Subsidiaries of what ...

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The Alexandria Sanitation Authority will pay $36 million to resolve a three-year condemnation battle over a 10-acre site marked for expansion of a sewage plant. The owners of the tract hoped to sell it for $42 million in 2006 to ...

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The Environmental Protection Agency is ordering two Virginia farms to stop discharging pollutants into Shenandoah River tributaries. The EPA says during inspections the farms were discharging pollutants, including nitrogen and phosphorus from animal manure, into the streams without a permit ...

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The world of green building standards has been largely free of lawyers and lawsuits, but the formerly peaceful world of sustainable development soon may be getting its first taste of litigation. Pointing to a failed challenge to the environmental credentials ...

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MIDDLE RIVER, Md.—Parts of the Chesapeake Bay made modest improvements in water quality and other indicators of overall health in 2009, according to a report released last week. But the head of a bay advocacy group said the nation’s largest ...

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Although a woman who owned a 16-acre farm adjacent to the King William County High School lost her Clean Water Act lawsuit against the school board for the alleged discharge of pollutants onto her land from a stormwater retention basin ...

Tagged with: Environmental Judge Henry E. Hudson U.S. District Court - Eastern District