High Court to decide how logging roads regulated

By Jeff Barnard

Published December 1, 2012 5:00am ET

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High Court to decide how logging roads regulated — Logger Eric Davis runs down the road as a truck loaded with logs is readied in the forest near Banks, Ore., Friday, Nov. 30, 2012. The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case Monday, Dec. 3, regarding regulation of water runoff from logging roads.(AP Photo/Don Ryan) | Don Ryan

GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether to switch gears on more than 30 years of regulating the muddy water running off logging roads into rivers.

At issue: Should the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency keep considering it the same as water running off a farm field, or start looking at it like a pipe coming out of a factory?

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