Statement by Earthjustice Managing Attorney David Guest on EPA Water Transfer Rule; EPA Proposes New Pollution Exemptions

From: U.S. Newswire | Date: June 1, 2006 | Copyright information

WASHINGTON, June 1 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The EPA today proposed a new rule that would exempt an entire class of water polluters from the Clean Water Act. The new rule would allow contaminants to be dumped into drinking water sources as well as lakes and streams by water transfer operations. Earthjustice attorney David Guest, from the organization's Tallahassee, Fla., office, issued the statement below. Earthjustice has been litigating regulatory decisions that allow unhealthy flows of pollution into Lake Okeechobee, Fla.'s largest freshwater lake and a drinking water source for many south ...

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