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USEPA Had No Mandatory Duty to Enforce CWA
Author(s) -
Stiegiler Mayo H.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.2002.tb09469.x
Subject(s) - ninth , enforcement , clean water act , duty , agency (philosophy) , business , clean air act , clean water , law , waste management , engineering , political science , water quality , chemistry , ecology , air pollution , philosophy , physics , organic chemistry , epistemology , acoustics , biology
According to the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) had no mandatory duty to take enforcement action in response to alleged violations of the Clean Water Act (CWA) by operators of a wastewater treatment plant.