Advocates Sue EPA for Not Regulating Stormwater From Urban, Suburban Areas

摘要

Environmental groups have asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to order the Environmental Protection Agency to comply with an 11-year-old ruling by the court to toughen regulations for urban and suburban stormwater runoff and to determine whether regulation of stormwater runoff from forest roads is necessary (Envtl. Def. Ctr., Inc. v. EPA, 9th Cir., No. 14-80184, 12/19/14). In a lawsuit filed late Dec. 18, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Environmental Defense Center allege the EPA ignored a 2003 Ninth Circuit ruling that required the agency to strengthen its 1999 regulations to govern stormwater runoff from cities and suburbs with a population of less than 100,000.