Tuscaloosa Resources, Inc. v. Alabama Department of Environmental Management

THOMPSON, Presiding Judge.

Tuscaloosa Resources, Inc. (“TRI”), appeals from a judgment of the Tuscaloosa Circuit Court (“the trial court”) dismissing TRI’s appeal of a decision of the Environmental Management Commission (“the Commission”) of the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (“ADEM”).

The procedural history relevant to this appeal is as follows. TRI sought a water-pollution permit from ADEM. The Alabama Rivers Alliance and Friends of Hurricane Creek (hereinafter referred to *592collectively as “ARA”) challenged the issuance of the permit through ADEM’s administrative-appeals…