Judge Rejects Maui Request To Reconsider Landmark CWA Permit Ruling

A federal district court judge in Hawaii has formally rejected a request from Maui County officials to reconsider her first-time ruling requiring they obtain a Clean Water Act (CWA) permit for treated wastewater that is injected underground but makes its way to the ocean. In an Oct. 20 ruling , Judge Susan Oki Mollway of the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii rejected the county’s reconsideration request, upholding among other things her first-time application of the Supreme Court’s...