Wisconsin Tribe Takes Feds To Court Over Proposed Michigan Mine

Menominee Argue `Back Forty` Permitting Process Violates Clean Water Act

The Menominee Tribe of Wisconsin has filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. government relating to a controversial pit sulfide mine planned near the border between Wisconsin and Michigan`s Upper Peninsula.

The suit, filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin in Green Bay, alleges the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wrongly delegated wetland permitting to the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality for the "Back Forty" mine project proposed by Aquila Resources, Inc. along the shores of the Menominee River...