The Register-Herald, Beckley, West Virginia

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December 9, 2009

Judge halts Greenbrier wind farm due to endangered bats

GREENBELT, Md. — Work on a West Virginia wind power project in Greenbrier County has been halted by a federal judge who sided with environmentalists’ claim that the project would harm an endangered bat.

U.S. District Judge Roger Titus issued the order Tuesday, citing potential harm to the federally endangered Indiana bat.

John Stroud, co-chairman of one of the environmental groups that filed the lawsuit, Mountain Communities for Responsible Energy, said group members were “really delighted with the ruling.”

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