pollutant-discharge
4 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-350 | Port of Tacoma, et al. v. Puget Soundkeeper Alliance | Ninth Circuit | 2024-09-27 | Denied | CVSGAmici (7)Relisted (2) | citizen-suit clean-water-act federal-jurisdiction npdes pollutant-discharge state-law | Whether Section 505 of the CWA authorizes citizens to invoke the federal courts to enforce conditions of state-issued pollutant-discharge permits adop… |
| 23-1028 | Shannon Poe v. Idaho Conservation League | Ninth Circuit | 2024-03-19 | Denied | Amici (2)Relisted (2) | addition-of-pollutant chevron-deference clean-water-act discharge-of-pollutant navigable-waters ninth-circuit-ruling pollutant-discharge statutory-interpretation | Whether there is a "discharge of a pollutant" under the Clean Water Act when material already within a regulated waterbody is merely moved or resuspen… |
| 19-839 | Eastern Oregon Mining Association, et al. v. Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, et al. | Oregon | 2020-01-03 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split clean-water-act environmental-regulation material-movement navigable-waters pollutant-discharge pollution-prohibition statutory-interpretation suction-dredge-mining | The Clean Water Act forbids the unpermitted "addition of any pollutant to navigable waters," 33 U.S.C. § 1362(12) (emphasis added). See id. § 1311(a).… |
| 18-1307 | Tennessee Clean Water Network, et al. v. Tennessee Valley Authority | Sixth Circuit | 2019-04-15 | Dismissed | clean-water-act epa groundwater navigable-waters permit-requirement permitting point-source pollutant-discharge pollution resource-conservation-and-recovery-act | Whether a defendant's addition of pollutants to a navigable water from a point source via groundwater conduits may ever violate the Clean Water Act's … |