Legal Opinion
Sierra Club v. Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality
Wyoming Supreme Court
Decided March 9, 2011No. S-10-0105PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BURKE, Justice.
[T1] The Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) issued an air quality permit to Medicine Bow Fuel and Power LLC (Medicine Bow), authorizing the construction of a facility that will gasify and liquefy coal, and of an associated underground coal mine. The Sierra Club appealed the issuance of that permit to the Wyoming Environmental Quality Council (Council), which upheld the DEQ's decision. The Sierra Club appealed the Council's decision to the district court, which certified the appeal directly to this Court pursuant to W.R.A.P. 12.09(b). We will affirm the Council's…
2Cases cited14 opinions
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