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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

Tags: Arizona Strip , Mountain States Legal Foundation , Colorado River , General Mineral Law , Bureau of Land Management , Arizona , William Perry Pendley , Interior Secretary Salazar , Northwest Mining Association , uranium , Litigation , Grand Canyon National Park , mining , U.S. Forest Service , NWMA , MSLF

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

Tags: Reno , arsenic , Nevada , Anaconda Copper , class action , Environmental Protection Agency , toxic mine , whistleblower , uranium , mine , groundwater , Litigation , Yerington , lawsuit , Atlantic Richfield , contamination , BP , ARCO , copper mine

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

Tags: Piketon , Ohio , Divested Atomic Corp. , Goodyear , Lockheed Martin , Columbus , Gail Ford , Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant , uranium , Litigation , lawsuit , contamination , nuclear weapons , hazardous chemical