Utilities Challenge Legality Of EPA's Massachusetts Small MS4 Permit

Municipal stormwater utilities are challenging EPA's novel Clean Water Act (CWA) general stormwater permit for small municipal entities in Massachusetts, claiming that the permit is unlawful because it sets new substantive mandates beyond anything in the water law or current agency rules. The Center for Regulatory Reasonableness (CRR), which represents some municipal wastewater utilities, filed a petition for review July 18 with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit over EPA's small municipal separate storm sewer...