ELR Citation: ELR 20183
No(s). s. 03-74795 et al (9th Cir. Jul 23, 2008)

The Ninth Circuit upheld a lower court decision vacating a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulation exempting ballast water and certain other marine discharges from the permitting scheme of Clean Water Act (CWA) §§301(a) and 402. The regulation, 40 C.F.R. §122.3(a), exemp...