Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, Inc. v. McCarthy

ELR Citation: 46 ELR 20151
No(s). 3:15-0271 (S.D. W. Va. Sep 9, 2016) (Chambers, C.J.)

A district court held that environmental groups have standing to sue EPA under the APA and CWA for its failure to disapprove West Virginia's §303(d) list, which lacks TMDLs for waterbodies previously identified as "biologically impaired." The groups' members use some, but not all, impaired waterbod...