Environmental Groups Appeal Dismissal of Water Standards Lawsuit

Environmental groups told an appeals court they provided the Environmental Protection Agency sufficient notice of their water standards suit despite what a district court decided last month.

Our Children’s Earth Foundation and Ecological Rights Foundation claimed the EPA was able to check its own records and locate which annual lists of water quality standards the groups alleged were flawed, according to the appellants opening brief filed Tuesday.

The district court wrongfully assumed the groups failed to highlight specific errors in annual lists since their claim questioned whether the agency was producing such documents, the plaintiffs told the US Court of ...