Environmentalists Sue EPA Over Monitoring Mandates In CWA Bacteria Plans

Environmentalists are suing EPA over its approval of Washington, D.C.'s Clean Water Act (CWA) cleanup plans for E. coli in the Anacostia and Potomac rivers, urging a federal district court to scrap the plan's monitoring mandates for being too weak to detect bacteria levels -- despite precedent on courts deferring to EPA on such mandates. The advocacy groups Anacostia Riverkeeper, Potomac Riverkeeper and the Kingman Park Civic Association filed a complaint against the agency Aug. 15 in the U.S...