U.S. Supreme Court
Jun. 25, 2009
Environmental Issues Lose in Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court resolved the term's environmental caseload this week the same way the court started it - by ruling against environmental interests and by overturning the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
By Lawrence Hurley
Daily Journal Staff Writer WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court resolved its environmental caseload this term the same way it started: By reversing the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The last of the court's five environmental rulings came Monday when the justices ruled 6-3 that mining waste doesn't require the same kind of strict regulation as many other forms of solid waste discharged into the nation's waterways. Coeur Al...
Daily Journal Staff Writer WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court resolved its environmental caseload this term the same way it started: By reversing the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The last of the court's five environmental rulings came Monday when the justices ruled 6-3 that mining waste doesn't require the same kind of strict regulation as many other forms of solid waste discharged into the nation's waterways. Coeur Al...
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