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Puget Sound TMDL Complaint News Release 12/2021

NWEA's Puget Sound TMDL Compliant News Release.  Citing agency “foot-dragging” in cleaning up Puget Sound, an environmental organization sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in federal court today. The lawsuit challenges EPA’s failure to take a key step towards cleaning up nitrogen pollution in Puget Sound that is causing a wide range of ecological degradation, including reduced oxygen levels in the water and massive algae blooms.

“After years of inaction, it’s clear that nothing short of a court order will force EPA and Washington’s Department of Ecology to clean up Puget Sound,” said Nina Bell, Executive Director of Oregon-based Northwest Environmental Advocates (NWEA), which filed the lawsuit. “The mechanism for absolutely ensuring adequate regulation is the pollution diet required by the Clean Water Act, not another weak half-measure cooked up by Ecology to avoid the law,” she said.

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