Sierra Club v. Sanitary Water Board

Opinion by

Judge Mencer,

As the noted legal luminary, Karl Lléwellyn, once said, “Law . . . begins when someone takes to doing something someone else does not like.” These words seem particularly appropriate in this case which is an appeal from an adjudication of the Sanitary Water Board (Board) which,1 over appellants’ objections, *112granted a permit to Kristianson & Johnson Coal Co., Inc. (K. & J.) for the discharge of industrial waste and mine drainage from a proposed bituminous coal strip mine in Chest Township, Clearfield County, and Chest Township, Cambria County. The mine drainage…