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NWEA vs EPA II Complaint 9/16/2020

NWEA vs EPA II - Through this action, NWEA seeks to force EPA to comply with its duty to update the State of Washington’s woefully outdated and inadequate water quality criteria that are intended to protect aquatic life from toxic pollutants. Washington has not adopted new or revised aquatic life criteria for many toxic pollutants for more than twenty years and many of its existing criteria are significantly less protective than EPA’s recommended criteria for these pollutants. Washington and EPA have known for years that continued use of the state’s outdated toxics criteria violates the Clean Water Act and poses a risk of harm to species that are listed as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act (“ESA”), including Chinook salmon and Southern Resident killer whales. Yet neither Washington nor EPA has taken any action to update these criteria.

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