Environmentalists appear to be increasingly suing industrial facilities in Clean Water Act (CWA) citizen suits over their stormwater releases in an effort to strengthen their permit requirements after EPA shelved its rulemaking that had been expected to set numeric stormwater retention standards for all new construction and redevelopment projects. In July, for example, citizen groups in Oregon and Massachusetts filed separate suits seeking to enforce CWA stormwater permit requirements against a parking management company and a timber product company respectively. The two suits are in addition to the numerous suits that citizen groups in California have been filing against waste handling, auto repair and other companies.
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