Activists Seek EPA Backing In Push For Strict State Water Quality Criteria

摘要

In what observers see as a growing trend, activists are increasingly looking to EPA to pressure states into implementing numeric water quality criteria for a range of pollutants in order to bypass a perceived reticence by state regulators, using EPA's issuance of numeric criteria for nutrients in Florida as a model.rnIn the most recent of these efforts, environmentalists in Louisiana are calling on state regulators to revise numeric water quality criteria for 15 priority pollutants and three non-priority pollutants, which would require the state to revise permits for a host of major industrial facilities such as petrochemical refiners, electric utilities, pulp and paper mills, and other facilities.