Water pollution
Northwest Environmental Advocates v. United States Environmental Protection Agency
A district court held that EPA violated the CWA when it failed to review Oregon's nonpoint source rules. The nonpoint source provisions create exemptions for many sources of pollution in Oregon's waters, including agriculture,...
Environmental Quality Comm'n v. Coos Bay, City of
The court reverses a portion of a state environmental agency order that imposed a civil penalty against a city for discharging sewage sludge without a permit in violation of an Oregon statute. The city was granted a national pollutant...