A new lawsuit filed by Atchafalaya Basinkeeper, the Louisiana Crawfish Producers Association-West, Healthy Gulf, Sierra Club and its Delta Chapter, and Waterkeeper Alliance challenges the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ approval of the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority’s East Grand Lake project in the Atchafalaya Basin. Represented by the Environmental Law Clinic at Tulane University School, the groups are contesting the Corps’ granting of a Clean Water Act section 404 permit allowing the dredging and filling of impacted wetlands.
Congratulations to Waterkeeper Alliance’s Senior Attorney Kelly Hunter Foster, who has been invited by EPA to serve on its new Animal Agriculture and Water Quality Federal Advisory Committee Subcommittee. Formed in response to multiple calls for accountability and regulatory reform for industrial-scale concentrated animal feeding operations, the subcommittee will begin work immediately and continue until November 2025.
The Environmental Integrity Project, Waterkeeper Alliance, and Center for Biological Diversity sent EPA a notice of intent to sue for its failure to issue national reports on water quality, which is a key requirement of the federal Clean Water Act. Although mandated by law, EPA’s last national water quality report was released in 2017.
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