How will Roberts Rule on Clean Water?
In the mining case being argued today, the Army Corps of Engineers granted a permit for a gold mine north of Juneau, Alaska, to Coeur Alaska which allows the company to deposit mine tailings into Lower Slate Lake after raising the level of the lake by building a long earthen dam.
Turner writes,
All agree that the tailings, fill or otherwise, would kill nearly all life in the lake. Coeur and the Corps insist that once the ore has been ...
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