Judge says people with bias were deliberately placed on board that made decision on farm expansion. 3:58 pm, Dec. 21, 2020 ×
Dairy cows at Daley Farms near Lewiston last year. Andrew Link / Forum News Service
WINONA Going against what he called his normal routine, 1st Judicial District Judge Kevin F. Mark ruled Monday in favor of Daley Farm, LLC. of Lewiston in its case against Winona County concerning a decision made by the county s Board of Adjustments made in February 2019.
Mark said the bias of certain members of the Board of Adjustments so severely tainted the quasi-judicial process that everybody needs to know that right now.
LEETSDALE A local copper manufacturing company this week pleaded guilty to discharging excess pollutants, including oil and copper, into the Ohio River over a five-year period.
Hussey Copper, represented by CEO John Harrington, pleaded guilty in federal court to three counts under the Clean Water Act, U.S. Attorney Scott W. Brady said.
The company pleaded guilty to one count each of submitting a false discharge monitoring report, releasing a potentially harmful amount of oil into the Ohio River and failing to immediately notify regulators of exceedances. Hussey Copper produces flat-rolled copper products for multiple markets at 100 Washington St. in Leetsdale.
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently published draft guidance on how to apply the “functional equivalent” test created by the Supreme Court in
County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund, 140 S. Ct. 1462 (2020). The “functional equivalent” test is intended to help determine if a Clean Water Act permit is needed when pollutants are discharged to groundwater before reaching navigable waters. The draft guidance reiterates threshold conditions that must be satisfied to trigger the need for a Clean Water Act permit and introduces a new factor relevant to the “functional equivalent” test: “the design and performance of the system or facility from which the pollutant is released.” Guidance at 7. The draft guidance represents EPA’s response to the most significant Clean Water Act decision in at least ten years, potentially affecting thousands of permit applicants and holders, as well as entities that c