EPA Drops Appeal Of Stormwater Suit, Teeing Up Expansion Of Permits

EPA has quietly withdrawn its appeal of a federal district court’s order that backed environmentalists’ petition to expand the universe of facilities subject to Clean Water Act (CWA) stormwater discharge permits, signaling that it will move to comply with the order though officials have made no formal statement on how they plan to proceed. The agency announced it was voluntarily dropping the case, Blue Water Baltimore, et al., v. Wheeler , through a June 6 filing with the U.S. Court...