pollutant-discharge

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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 …