|
|
Mining News: News Nuggets: Senators seek to limit EPA veto
Sens. David Vitter (R-LA) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) Jan. 7 re-introduced legislation aimed at prohibiting the Environmental Protection Agency from pre-emptively or retroactively vetoing a permit under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act. The re-introduced legislation, “Regulatory Fairness Act of 2015”, has been designated S.54. The EPA previously used CWA Section 404 authority to revoke permits issued for the Mingo Logan coal mine project in Manchin’s home state of West Virginia. If passed, the Regulatory Fairness Act of 2014 would prevent EPA from pre-emptively vetoing CWA permits needed to develop the Pebble copper-gold-molybdenum deposit in the Bristol Bay region of Southwest Alaska.
- Shane Lasley
Did you find this article interesting?
Tweet it
 | Digg it
|
Print this story | Email it to an associate.
Click here to subscribe to Mining News North of 60 for as low as $89 per year
|
Mining News North - Phone: 1-907 522-9469 - Fax: 1-907 522-9583
[email protected] --- http://www.miningnewsnorth.com ---
S U B S C R I B E
Copyright Petroleum Newspapers of Alaska, LLC (North of 60 Mining News)(Petroleum News Bakken)(Petroleum News)(PNA)©2013 All rights reserved. The content of this article and web site may not be copied, replaced, distributed, published, displayed or transferred in any form or by any means except with the prior written permission of Petroleum Newspapers of Alaska, LLC (Petroleum News)(PNA). Copyright infringement is a violation of federal law subject to criminal and civil penalties.
|
|
|
