Tennessee Clean Water Network v. Tennessee Valley Authority

ELR Citation: 48 ELR 20166
No(s). 17-6155 (6th Cir. Sep 24, 2018)

The Sixth Circuit held that seepage from a coal-fired power plant adjacent to the Cumberland River did not violate the CWA. Environmental groups argued that the plant violated the CWA by leaking pollutants without a permit from its unlined coal ash ponds into groundwater that is hydrologically conne...