Legal Opinion
Powder River Basin Resource Council v. Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality
Wyoming Supreme Court
Decided March 5, 2010No. S-09-0037PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KITE, Justice.
[¶ c1] The Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) issued an air quality permit to Basin Electric Power Cooperative (Basin Electric) for a new coal- fired electric power plant, called the Dry Fork Station, to be built in Wyoming's Powder River Basin. The Powder River Basin Resource Council and the Sierra Club (collectively the PRBRC) challenged that air quality permit before the Wyoming Environmental Quality Council (Council). After hearings on the PRBRC's different claims, the Council upheld the DEQ's issuance of the permit. The PRBRC appealed the Council's decision…
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