COMPELLING A NUTRIENT POLLUTION SOLUTION: HOW NUTRIENT POLLUTION LITIGATION IS REDEFINING COOPERATIVE FEDERALISM UNDER THE CLEAN WATER ACT

摘要

Nutrient pollution is one of the most pressing, costly, and complex environmental problems facing the nation's waters. It is essential for states to utilize their Clean Water Act Water Quality Standard programs to combat the impacts of nutrient pollution. Yet, states have been slow to do so. Frustrated with states' progress in addressing nutrient pollution, environmental organizations in Florida and the Mississippi-Atchafalaya River Basin attempted to compel the Environmental Protection Agency to act. These nutrient pollution battles that ensued in Florida and subsequently in the Mississippi-Atchafalaya River Basin are redefining the contours of cooperative federalism under the Clean Water Act.