Mealey's ( November 4, 2022, 11:52 AM EDT) -- TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — A federal judge in Alabama denied a coal mining company’s motion to stay a suit brought by an environmental nonprofit against two coal companies under the Clean Water Act (CWA) and state environmental laws for alleged unauthorized discharges into a tributary of the Black Warrior River, finding that the claims would be unaffected by a potential future permit and that the company failed to argue that a stay was necessary to prevent significant hardship or inequity....