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Tennessee Riverkeeper and a coalition of environmental groups on Tuesday filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for failing to set limits on harmful [...]
The lawsuit alleges that the EPA has violated the Clean Water Act by failing to set limits on unregulated water pollution
A coalition of environmental groups today filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failing to set limits on...
Environmental groups sued the Environmental Protection Agency today for failing to set limits on harmful chemicals like cyanide, benzene, mercury and chlorides in wastewater emitted by oil refineries and plants that produce chemicals, fertilizer, plastics, pesticides and nonferrous metals. The Clean Water Act requires the EPA to limit discharges of industrial pollutants based on the best available wastewater treatment methods, and to tighten those limits at least once every five years where data show treatment technologies have improved. But the agency has never set limits for many pollutants ...
Fish and other living organisms in the water cannot get rid of toxic ammonia, leading to contamination of their organs and eventually death.