A Ramsey County district court judge had earlier faulted the MPCA’s actions but did not find that the agency had violated any law and that the action did not, by itself, warrant reversing the permit. The Court of Appeals had agreed with that assessment, a decision which several environmental plaintiffs, including the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy and Friends of the Boundary Waters, have now appealed to the state’s Supreme Court. In addition to the federal workers’ union, the groups Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, the Minnesota Coalition on Government Information, the Minnesota Well Owners Organization, and two Minnesota administrative law professors, have submitted their own briefs in support of Supreme Court review and asking to be authorized as amicus, or “friend of the court” filers in the case.
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