Affirming EPA Study Effort, 9th Circuit Rejects Environmentalists’ CAFO Suit

A three-judge appellate panel has rejected environmentalists’ suit seeking to vacate and remand EPA’s denial of their 2017 petition pursuing tougher effluent limits for concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFO), with the judges affirming that EPA acted reasonably when it instead chose to conduct a holistic study of the sector’s discharges. Judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit issued an Oct. 2 opinion denying environmentalists’ petition for review in Food and Water Watch (F&WW), et al. v....