Activists Vow To Sue EPA Over Novel Oregon Water Toxics Standard

Environmentalists are planning on suing EPA for failing to properly review Oregon's proposed revisions to narrative water criteria for toxics that assume high fish consumption rates, citing violations of a number of federal statutes, and activist sources say they hope the suit will force the agency to speed up reviews of state water quality criteria nationally. While activists were generally supportive of EPA's mandate last year that Oregon set stringent criteria to protect Native American populations that consume large amounts...