EPA Rejects Advocates' Push For CWA Rule On Forest Roads Stormwater

EPA is rejecting environmentalists' push for the agency to develop a Clean Water Act (CWA) rule limiting stormwater runoff from roads on forest lands, saying that existing state, federal, tribal and private programs are sufficient to address runoff and denying advocates' claim that the water law requires EPA to develop a rulemaking. “EPA has concluded that efforts to help strengthen existing programs would be more effective in further addressing forest road discharges than superimposing an additional federal regulatory layer over...