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Puget Sound TMDL Complaint 12/2021

NWEA's Puget Sound TMDL Complaint filed on December 7, 2021.

Through this action, Plaintiff Northwest Environmental Advocates challenges the failure of Defendant United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) to ensure the protection and restoration of the marine waters of Puget Sound in the State of Washington in violation of the mandates of the Clean Water Act (“CWA” or “Act”), 33 U.S.C. §1251, et seq.

For over three decades, the marine waters of Puget Sound have been known to be impaired by dangerously low levels of dissolved oxygen, caused by nitrogen pollution, and high levels of toxic pollutants. Along with oxygen depletion, nitrogen pollution fuels extensive algal blooms in Puget Sound, some toxic to people, some toxic to shellfish, and some that are upending the food chain that supports imperiled Chinook salmon and orca whales.

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