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NWEA Files Brief Supporting EPA Ballast Water Permit

March 28, 2011 | Advocacy, Ballast Water, Clean Water Act, EPA, Invasive Species, Lawsuits, National, NPDES Permits, Water Quality

Although NWEA recently signed a settlement with EPA over its own challenge to EPA’s Vessel General Permit (VGP),  the shipping industry had continued to press its own court case against the VGP in the D.C. Circuit. NWEA is an intervenor in the shipping industry’s...

NWEA Settles Ballast Water Lawsuit with EPA

March 13, 2011 | Advocacy, Ballast Water, Invasive Species, Lawsuits, National, NPDES Permits, Update, Water Quality

It’s been a long 12 years but NWEA just settled our third — yes third — ballast water lawsuit against EPA.  The settlement calls for EPA to follow the requirements of the Clean Water Act when it issues its next permit to ships that discharge all...
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