Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa v. United States Environmental Protection Agency

ELR Citation: 54 ELR 20053
No(s). 22-1783 (JRT/LIB) (D. Minn. Mar 29, 2024) (Tunheim, J.)

A district court denied summary judgment for Native American tribes in a challenge to EPA's approval of Minnesota's 2021 revised water quality standards. The revisions replaced quantitative standards with qualitative narrative standards that describe the characteristics Minnesota waters must have to...