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The Clean Water Act is a United States federal statute enacted in 1972 to reduce levels of toxic substances in the nation's water supply and to prevent high levels of new contamination. The CWA seeks to accomplish its stated goals by preventing point and nonpoint pollution sources, assisting wastewater treatment facilities and maintaining wetlands. less -

Dissecting Discharges: Recent Ninth Circuit Rulings and EPA Guidelines Interpreting the Clean Water Act

Allen Matkins on 12/22/2023

November was an eventful month for the Clean Water Act (CWA). The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued two decisions last month—which will apply to cases and matters in California and other states within the Ninth...more

Effluent Guidelines/Clean Water Act: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Proposes Rule Addressing Meat and Poultry Products...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 12/19/2023

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) announced a pre-Federal Register Notice for a proposed rule addressing Clean Water Act effluent limit guidelines for the Meat and Poultry Products (“MPP”) industrial...more

EPA Issues Guidance Pushing States to use NDPES Permits to Reduce PFAS Discharges

Stinson LLP on 12/14/2022

This week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued guidance advising states how to use National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit requirements to restrict the discharge of per- and polyfluoroalkyl...more

Ohio EPA Taking Steps to Offset Some of the Federal Government’s Reduced Regulation of Wetlands

Benesch on 5/20/2020

In January 2020, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) finalized a regulation that narrowed the scope of their regulatory jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act. In doing so,...more

Senate Bill 205 Imposes New Requirements for Industrial Companies in California

Stoel Rives - Environmental Law Blog on 1/6/2020

Last fall, the California Legislature enacted Senate Bill 205 in an effort to more effectively control stormwater pollution from regulated industrial companies. Effective January 1, 2020, an industrial company will not be...more

Court Finds that Privately-Own Industrial Stormwater Discharges Require Clean Water Act Permits

Stoel Rives - Environmental Law Blog on 9/18/2018

Environmental groups have obtained a favorable Clean Water Act (“CWA”) ruling from the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, which can be viewed as an expansion of jurisdiction for stormwater permitting...more

U.S. District Court Holds USEPA Must Regulate Previously Exempted Stormwater Runoff from Specified Commercial, Industrial, and...

Downey Brand LLP on 9/4/2018

On August 9, 2018, the United States District Court for the Central District of California held that the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) is required to more specifically regulate certain types of...more

EPA Enforcement Initiatives Renew and Expand Industrial Target Priorities

Williams Mullen on 4/28/2016

EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance recently proposed changes to its National Program Manager (NMP) Guidance that, in part, would revise EPA’s National Enforcement Initiatives (“NEIs”) for federal fiscal...more

EPA’s Chesapeake Bay TMDL Survives Legal Challenge: Stricter Water Quality Regulation of Farms, Municipalities, Industry, and...

K&L Gates LLP on 7/16/2015

On July 6, 2015, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit unanimously rejected a challenge brought by agricultural and builder groups to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Chesapeake Bay...more

EPA Really Does Have Authority To Withdraw Specifications Under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act

Foley Hoag LLP - Environmental Law on 10/3/2014

Last year, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that EPA has authority to withdraw its approval for the specification of sites for the disposal of fill material, even after the Army Corps has issued a permit for the...more

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