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Miners Seek Final Judgment on Withdrawal Law
Posted on 8 Jul 2013 by William Perry Pendley

DENVER - A 117-year-old nonprofit, non-partisan mining trade association with thousands of members, which had argued that a federal law used to lock-up a million acres of federal land in northwestern Arizona is unconstitutional, on June 12 sought final... Read More

Toxic Nevada Mine Lawsuit Seeks $5 Million From BP, ARCO
Posted on 16 Feb 2011 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

RENO, Nev. - (AP) Neighbors of a toxic mine in northern Nevada have filed a class-action lawsuit against BP America and Atlantic Richfield Co. accusing them of intentionally and negligently concealing the extent of the contamination leaking off the abandoned... Read More

Court Dismisses Ohio Uranium Plant Contamination Lawsuit
Posted on 28 Mar 2011 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

COLUMBUS, Ohio - (AP) Residents living near a Cold War-era nuclear weapons facility in southern Ohio settled a two-decade-old federal lawsuit over alleged hazardous chemical contamination in their neighborhoods, a lawyer for the plant's operators... Read More