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Photo by Matthias Zomer on Pexels.com Tyler Chalfant | December 26th, 2019 Twelve public interest groups sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency this month for its decision not to update slaughterhouse water pollution standards. An estimated 4,700 out of roughly 5,000 slaughterhouses nationwide discharge polluted water into public waterways, and have been identified by the…
Three environmental organizations are suing Virginia’s Henrico County in federal court over a history of sewage overflows and pollution discharges to tributaries of the James River near Richmond.
Henrico County is the subject of a new federal lawsuit alleging the county has illegally released pollution from many points in its sanitary sewer system. The suit alleges, based on state data, that Henrico’s system has overflowed about 66 million gallons of untreated sewage into the James River and its tributaries since 2016.
Three conservation organizations have filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court against Henrico County following decades of pollution in the James River and its tributaries.
DeSmog A new lawsuit seeks to kill a recent Trump administration rule that critics say deals a blow to transparency by giving the Environmental Protection Agency broad authority to shoot down public information requests. The new rule — put in place without public input — was published on the Federal Register June 26 and goes into effect July 26. “This rule is a shameful attempt to keep Americans in the dark about the Trump administration’s sickening failures to protect our air, water, and wildlife,” said Meg Townsend, open government attorney with the Center for Biological D...