Court Reiterates Need For EPA To Set Strict ‘Daily’ Limits In TMDLs

August 13, 2019
Years after a federal appellate court told EPA it must set strict “daily” pollution limits in waterbody cleanup plans, a district court is reiterating that need and vacating two such plans for the Anacostia and Potomac rivers in Washington, D.C., where EPA failed to require such daily maximum discharge limits for E. coli bacteria. The Aug. 12 ruling from the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in Anacostia Riverkeeper, et al. v. EPA, et al. agrees...


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