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In this issue: NELC Reliant Suit Spurs State Action Judge Declines To Order EIS For Sewage Overflows Contaminate Bush Administration Undercuts Clean Water Act Salmon Industry Drags Feet On Regulation Interview: Sylvia Broude, Community Organizer For Toxics Action Center |
NELC Reliant Suit Spurs State Action
Pittsburgh, PA—As reported in our last newsletter, NELC filed a Clean Water Act enforcement suit in April against Reliant Energy to address long-standing industrial pollution of Pennsylvania’s Conemaugh River. More. Judge Declines To Order EIS For Dioxin Landfill
Bay City, MI—In May, Judge Thomas L. Ludington of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan ruled that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers complied with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) by preparing only a brief environmental assessment of its plans to build an uncapped, unlined landfill to dispose of 3.1 million cubic yards of dioxin-contaminated sediments that will be dredged from the upper Saginaw River. More. |
National Environmental Law Center Report is the report of the National Environmental Law Center, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research and litigation organization working to stop polluters through legal action and pollution prevention policies. Director of Litigation: Litigation Staff:
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