EPA, States Push For Novel Water Trading As Advocates Seek Legal Test

EPA and states in the Chesapeake Bay area and other regions subject to strict Clean Water Act (CWA) controls on nutrients are hoping to build support for water quality trading regimes in 2016, including first-time interstate trades, but environmentalists critical of the practice are seeking a test case that would let them challenge it in court. EPA and states are touting trading programs as the solution to stringent watershed-level nutrient reduction goals because they allow industrial dischargers such as wastewater...