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Supreme Court issued a landmark CWA decision in Sackett v. EPA, decision significantly narrows the scope of the waters of the United States, as compared to the federal government’s historically broad view of its authority under the Act. SCOTUS charts a new course for CWA
It is rare for the U.S. Supreme Court to construe a statutory phrase on multiple occasions. And yet now, for purposes of the federal Clean Water Act (CWA or the Act), it has rendered.
Congress passed the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972 colloquially known as the Clean Water Act (CWA) to “restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the Nation’s waters.”REF To do so, the CWA requires parties to obtain a permit before discharging a pollutant into “navigable waters.”
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection ("NJDEP") published interim soil and soil leachate remediation standards for PFNA, PFOA, PFOS, and GenX on October 17th.