Seth Johnson, a lawyer for the groups with the environmental organization EarthJustice, said the ruling means that harmful pollutants from gold mining, such as arsenic, cyanide, lead and chromium, will remain unregulated.
“There are people who live next to existing and proposed gold mines and this ruling is going to hurt them,” Johnson said in a telephone interview. “We hope that states take note and do something about this.”
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