Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Contaminated Groundwater Case Under Clean Water Act

摘要

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on February 19 to hear a case involving whether pollution that moves through groundwater to surface water should be covered under the Clean Water Act. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled in 2018 in Hawaii's Maui County vs. Hawaii Wildlife Fund that a municipal wastewater facility violated the Clean Water Act by injecting treated wastewater into the groundwater, some of which entered the Pacific Ocean. The Supreme Court will hear the county's appeal this fall.