Weekly Cases Update Volume 48, Issue 11

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Volume 48, Issue 27

ELR 201633:15-cv-59(D.N.D., )

A North Dakota district court enjoined in Iowa the 2015 Clean Water Rule, which clarifies the definition of "waters of the United States" that are protected under the CWA.

Keywords:
"Navigable waters" construed
ELR 2016416-2461(TJK)(D.D.C., )

A district court granted in part an environmental group's request to compel EPA to produce guidelines for commercial or industrial solid waste incinerators (CISWI) and other categories of solid waste incinerators (OSWI).

Keywords:
Solid waste combustion, §129
ELR 2016516-35742(9th Cir., )

The Ninth Circuit affirmed a district court's ruling that a Canadian smelter company that dumped several million tons of industrial waste into the Columbia River was liable for a Native American tribe's response costs.

Keywords:
Covered persons, §107(a)
ELR 2016217-1895(4th Cir., )

The Fourth Circuit held that seepage from a coal-fired power plant did not violate §301 of the CWA, which prohibits the unauthorized discharge of any pollutant into navigable waters.

Keywords:
Held not included

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