NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION v. DEQ

Docket No. 308366.

856 N.W.2d 394 (2014)

306 Mich. App. 369

NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION v. DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided August 12, 2014, at 9:05 a.m.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hooper, Hathaway, Price, Beuche & Wallace, Ann Arbor, (by Bruce T. Wallace , William J. Stapleton , and Angela L. Jackson ,) for the National Wildlife Federation, Huron Mountain Club, and Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve, Inc.

F. Michelle Halley for the National Wildlife Federation and Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve, Inc.

Honigman, Miller, Schwartz and Cohn LLP, Lansing, (by Eric J. Eggan and H. Kirk Meadows ) and Heather L. Chapman for the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community.

Bill Schuette , Attorney General, Aaron D. Lindstrom , Solicitor General, Richard A. Bandstra , Chief Legal Counsel, and Robert P. Reichel and Andrew T. Prins , Assistant Attorneys General, for the Department of Environmental Quality.

Warner Norcross & Judd LLP, Grand Rapids, (by Daniel P. Ettinger and Scott M. Watson ) for Kennecott Eagle Minerals Company.

Before: CAVANAGH, P.J., and OWENS and STEPHENS, JJ.


Appellants appeal by leave granted the circuit court's order affirming the decision of the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to grant a groundwater discharge permit to the Kennecott Eagle Minerals Company in connection with the latter's plan to develop an underground mine to extract nickel and copper from the sulfide ores beneath the...

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