West Virginia Highlands Conservancy, Inc. v. Huffman

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that NPDES “permits set forth limitations on the type and quantity of pollutants that will ultimately be released into navigable waters”
• explaining that “pollutant” is broadly defined
• explaining that “pollutant” is broadly defined
• “[W]here . . . the mine owner generates pollution but then abandons the site, the subsequent operator is the party responsible for obtaining a permit”
• “In other words, the statute takes the water’s point of view: water is indifferent about who initially polluted it so long as pollution continues to occur.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).