Rejecting EPA, Court Renews Strict Statutory Approach For Setting TMDLs

摘要

A federal court has vacated and remanded to EPA a trash cleanup plan for the Anacostia River in Maryland and the District of Columbia, reiterating past approaches that adopted a strict statutory interpretation of the Clean Water Act's (CWA) requirement for how regulators develop the cleanup plans, known as total maximum daily loads (TMDLs).