In Novel Suit, Advocates Challenge Use Of SDWA Standards In CWA Criteria

Environmentalists are challenging in federal court EPA's approval of Idaho's water quality criteria for arsenic, arguing the state's reliance on drinking water standards to set a Clean Water Act (CWA) limit is counter to EPA policy -- a case that if successful could require other states to change how they set CWA standards. In Northwest Environmental Advocates (NWEA) v. EPA , filed June 25 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon, Portland Division, environmentalists say Idaho's...