EPA Expects ‘More’ Coal Ash Enforcement As OMB Weighs ‘Maui’ Guidance

October 18, 2024
A top EPA official is expecting the agency to step up its enforcement against unlawful discharges at coal ash facilities, an issue that was already an enforcement priority for the agency and one that is being bolstered by the Supreme Court’s landmark 2020 ruling subjecting some groundwater releases to Clean Water Act (CWA) permit requirements. Joe Theis, associate director of the Water Enforcement Division in EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA), told an annual CWA conference Oct. 18...


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