Environmentalists Cite Maui To Push For Stricter CWA Permit Enforcement

摘要

Environmentalists who are urging a federal court to reject a draft enforcement agreement between EPA and a steel company for being too lax are citing a recent Supreme Court ruling to argue that the pact fails to address contaminated wastewater that seeped into groundwater and made its way into navigable waters just a few feet away. The high court's ruling in County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund, et al. "is relevant" to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana's "determination of whether the Proposed Consent Decree resolves U.S. Steel's violations of the [Clean Water Act (CWA)] in a manner that is 'adequate and consistent with applicable law,' because it clarifies that U. S. Steel's hexavalent chromium discharges to groundwater associated with the April 2017 spill violate the [CWA]," the Surfrider Foundation says in a May 11 brief.