Wisconsin Tribe Loses Rehearing Bid In Quest For EPA Mine Permitting Review

Mealey's (May 12, 2020, 1:35 PM EDT) -- CHICAGO — A Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on May 8 denied a Wisconsin Indian tribe’s petition for rehearing, letting stand the panel’s ruling that there was no reviewable final agency action on the tribe’s requests to the Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers to exercise federal jurisdiction over a Clean Water Act (CWA) permit for a mining operation (Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, et al., No. 19-1130, 7th Cir.)....