The U.S. Supreme Court.(inbrief)(Brief article)

THE U.S. SUPREME COURT has declined to decide the fate of Eagle Mountain, a proposed trash dump near Joshua Tree National Park that would be the nation's largest. The dump would be sited in a former open pit mine in Riverside County called Eagle Mountain. By refusing to grant certiorari, the Supreme Court let stand a lower court ruling that called into question critical aspects of the land swap between the Bureau of Land Management and the dumps developers, Kaiser Ventures and Mine Reclamation. Additionally, the lower court found that the developer failed to analyze alternate locations for the dump …