Stalkup v. State Department of Environmental Quality

GOLDEN, Justice.

This appeal involves a challenge by adjoining landowners under the Wyoming Environmental Quality Act (Act) to a limestone mine and mine haul road planned by Rissler & McMurry Company (Rissler) and approved by the State of Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ). Rissler filed a notification and consent, but was not required to comply with several of the usual permitting requirements because it was exempt from those requirements and instead proceeded under the Act’s ten-acre exemption. Appellants filed suit, arguing that the DEQ improperly approved Ris-sler’s mining…