Pfeil v. Amax Coal West, Inc.

GOLDEN, Chief Justice.

We review property owners’ (objectors) contentions that the Environmental Quality Council (EQC) and Amax Coal West, Inc. (Amax) failed to provide them with sufficient and timely notice of a proposal to revise the mining plan for the Eagle Butte Mine. The mine is located near the Rawhide Village subdivision, nine miles north of Gillette, Wyoming. The objectors also contend the EQC’s decision to approve the revision to the mining plan was arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, otherwise not in accordance with law, as well as not supported by substantial evidence.

The…