Weekly Cases Update Volume 44, Issue 3

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Volume 44, Issue 2

ELR 200064:08cv324(N.D. Fla., )

A district court granted EPA's motion to amend a consent decree requiring it to adopt numeric criteria for Florida's waters unless the state does so first. Florida adopted new nutrient criteria, but for some waters, the criteria are not numeric.

Keywords:
State standards, §303(a), Water pollution
ELR 200091:00-1898(S.D.N.Y., )

A district court dismissed as time-barred Puerto Rico's lawsuit against two gasoline suppliers for groundwater contamination.

Keywords:
Methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE), Water pollution