Court Sides with Food & Water Watch and Allies in Fight to Clean Up Industrial Wastewater

Court Sides with Food & Water Watch and Allies in Fight to Clean Up Industrial Wastewater

In a suit brought by several groups including Food & Water Watch, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decided that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s decision not to update water pollution standards for several major industrial sectors including petroleum refineries, plastics manufactures, and fertilizer plants was unlawful. Now EPA will be required to reconsider its standards for these industries, properly accounting for improvements in…