Judge Finds Flint SDWA Citizen Sult Does Not Conflict With EPA Action

摘要

A federal district court judge is allowing a Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) citizen suit seeking to address lead-contaminated water in Flint, MI, to proceed, rejecting state and local officials' arguments that the court lacks jurisdiction to hear the case and that the relief sought by plaintiffs would not conflict with an EPA emergency order. In a July 7 opinion and order, Judge David Lawson of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan says the court disagrees with the defendants' arguments that the district court "should not, or cannot, get involved and the plaintiffs should be content with the remedial course charted by the Environmental Protection Agency."