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Article: Coal Mining Industry Officials Want Clarification of Environmental Ruling.
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- May 20, 2002
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By Ken Ward Jr., The Charleston Gazette, W.Va. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
May 20--Coal industry lawyers want Chief U.S. District Judge Charles H. Haden II to clarify his May 8 mountaintop removal ruling.
They say it's not clear how much of a mining site a coal company must propose for future development in order for the company's valley fill to receive a Clean Water Act permit.
Late Friday, industry lawyers filed papers to ask Haden to suspend his ruling while the industry and the federal government appeal it to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
They alleged that if the ruling is not suspended pending appeal, it would ...