Last month, Karen Budd-Falen, a Cheyenne, Wyo., lawyer, presented her findings on the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA) to the 100th Anniversary Conference of the Rocky Mountain Coal Mining Institute in Vail, Colo. After spending years researching court documents -- the federal government keeps no records of EAJA disbursements -- Ms. Budd-Falen found that environmental groups have amassed hundreds of millions of dollars in EAJA awards.
