In re SDS Gen. Permit for Ballast Water Discharges

ELR Citation: ELR 20167
No(s). 08-1828 (Minn. Ct. App. Jul 28, 2009)

A Minnesota appellate court upheld a state permit regulating ballast-water discharges into Minnesota waters of Lake Superior. An environmental group argued that the agency erred in its interpretation and application of the state's nondegradation rule, failed to conduct an appropriate nondegradation ...