7th Circuit Blasts EPA For Not Answering Tribe’s Call For Permitting Review

Mealey's (January 28, 2020, 12:18 PM EST) -- CHICAGO — A Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel chastised the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Jan. 27 for its “regulatory misdirection” when a Wisconsin Indian tribe sought help in protecting its sacred land from a mining operation, causing the tribe to file suit for which the panel affirmed dismissal for lack of a final agency action to challenge (Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, et al., No. 19-1130, 7th Cir.)....