Environmentalists Petition EPA To Withdraw North Carolina NPDES Program

Environmentalists are petitioning EPA to withdraw North Carolina’s Clean Water Act (CWA) permitting program due to a new state law, which EPA has also opposed, that they charge has led the Tar Heel State to violate the CWA and its memorandum of agreement (MOA) that governs how the state must administer its program. The Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) filed an Aug. 28 petition urging the agency to commence proceedings to determine whether to withdraw North Carolina’s National Pollutant Discharge...