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Deschutes Budd Capitol Lake Complaint News Release Dec 2019

LAWSUIT CHALLENGES EPA’S YEARS OF DELAY ON CLEANING UP BUDD INLET, CAPITOL LAKE, AND THE DESCHUTES RIVER

Group says agencies consider Budd Inlet a “political hot potato” because it implicates Puget Sound sewage treatment plants.   A new lawsuit filed today against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) takes aim at the agency’s foot-dragging on cleaning up a corner of Puget Sound and Washington’s Deschutes River. The suit challenges EPA’s failure to issue water pollution clean-up plans in violation of the Clean Water Act.

“The regulatory agencies engage in a lot of public hand-wringing about pollution in Puget Sound but take almost no pollution control actions,” said Nina Bell, Executive Director of Northwest Environmental Advocates (NWEA). “Although Congress, through the Clean Water Act, promised citizens prompt action, the agencies have delivered decades of delay,” she added.
NWEA’s lawsuit challenges EPA’s failure to issue clean-up plans for Budd Inlet, Capitol Lake,

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