Kentuckians for the Commonwealth v. Rivenburgh
This case challenged the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ decision to grant a nationwide permit under the Clean Water Act to a surface mining operation in Kentucky that proposed to fill six miles of streams with mining waste. The district court’s ruling that the Corps had no authority under that Act to approve permits to dump waste in streams was reversed on appeal.
Joe Lovett of the Appalachian Center for the Economy and the Environment in Lewisburg, West Virginia, Joe Childers of Kentuckians for the Commonwealth in Lexington, Kentucky, and Public Justice’s Environmental Enforcement Project Director Jim Hecker are co-counsel.
