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Supreme Court Rejects Logging Road Permit Requirement – Will Oil and Gas Benefit?

By Ramona Monroe on March 22, 2013
Posted in Oil & Gas

On March 20, 2013, the Supreme Court ruled in Decker v. Northwest Environmental Defense Center 586 U.S. (2013) that storm water discharges from logging roads do not require an NPDES permit under the CWA. The decision turns largely on deference to EPA’s interpretation of its own regulations. Whether this holding will be extended to mining…

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