Advocates Seeking Stricter Stormwater Rules File Suit Over EPA's MSGP

Environmentalists who have long urged EPA to craft more stringent rules and permits for controlling stormwater runoff are suing the agency over its updated multi-sector general permit (MSGP) for industrial stormwater -- a challenge they could use to demand a sweeping new effluent limitation guideline (ELG) for the affected sectors. Four environmentalist groups filed a petition for review of the MSGP June 30 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, weeks after the agency posted the revised...