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The Clean Water Act is a United States federal statute enacted in 1972 to reduce levels of toxic substances in the nation's water supply and to prevent high levels of new contamination. The CWA seeks to accomplish its stated goals by preventing point and nonpoint pollution sources, assisting wastewater treatment facilities and maintaining wetlands. less -

Recent Ninth Circuit Decision Suggests Effluent Limitation Guidelines Across Multiple Industry Categories May Be Changing Soon

Stoel Rives LLP on 7/8/2025

In its recent decision in Waterkeeper Alliance v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, No. 23-636 (9th Cir. June 18, 2025), the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) failed to...more

Effluent Guidelines/Clean Water Act: Federal Appellate Court Addresses Argument that United States Environmental Protection Agency...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 6/25/2025

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (“Ninth Circuit”) addressed in a June 18th Opinion an issue involving the Clean Water Act Effluent Limit Guidelines (“ELGs”). See Waterkeeper Alliance, et al., v....more

Effluent Guidelines/Clean Water Act: Waterkeeper Petition Challenging U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Alleged Failure to...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 4/13/2023

Waterkeeper Alliance and 11 other environmental organizations (collectively “Waterkeeper”) filed an April 11th Petition for Review (“Petition”) in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit alleging a failure by...more

NPDES Stormwater Permit/Clean Water Act: Alabama Appellate Court Addresses Challenge to Steel-Galvanizing Effluent Limits

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 5/11/2022

The Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama (“Appellate Court”) addressed in a February 18th Opinion a challenge to the issuance by the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (“ADEM”) of two Clean Water Act National...more

Whole Effluent Toxicity/Clean Water Act: Federal Appellate Court Addresses Challenge to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 8/17/2021

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (“Ninth Circuit”) addressed in an August 5th Opinion a judicial challenge to nonbinding guidance that had been issued by the United States Environmental Protection...more

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