District court jurisdiction
Louisiana Environmental Action Network v. City of Baton Rouge
The Fifth Circuit reversed and remanded a lower court decision dismissing an environmental group's CWA action against a city for violations at its wastewater treatment plants. The lower court erred in ruling that a 2002 consent...
Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition v. Maple Coal Co.
A district court held that environmental groups are entitled to injunctive relief and civil penalties in their CWA citizen suit against a coal company for violating the water quality standards for selenium set forth in its permit....
Piney Run Preservation Ass'n v. County Comm'rs of Carroll County, Md.
The court holds that a county's sewage treatment plant violated Federal Water Pollution Control Act (FWPCA) §301(a) by discharging heat into a stream located near environmental group members' homes. The court first holds that according...
Westfield, N.Y., Village of v. Welch's
The court holds that a district court abused its discretion by staying a village's action for a food processor's unpaid sewer user charges on the ground that there was a pending state court action addressing the same issue. The court...
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