The Nation - News from May 30, 1985
A judge in Billings, Mont., voided the Montana portion of the largest sale of federal coal rights in history, saying the government’s impact statement failed to address potential social and economic effects of the transaction on an Indian tribe. U.S. District Judge James Battin declared void the 1982 sale of rights to 363.3 million tons of coal in southeastern Montana’s Powder River Basin, giving a legal victory to the Northern Cheyenne Indian Tribe.
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