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Developers Challenge Clean Water Act

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan

23 February 2006 - 2:00pm

A challenge to the Clean Water Act currently before the Supreme Court could endanger the nation's streams.

"Polluters are currently not allowed to dump toxic substances into a major river -- and that wouldn't change. So far, so good. But it would become perfectly legal to dump the same poisons into a stream that flows into that same river. Or as Justice David Souter aptly said: "All you've got to do is dump the pollutant far enough up the water system to get away scot free."

To think that's what Congress intended is absurd."

Full Story: Challenge to Clean Water Act endangers nation's streams
Source: San Jose Mercury News, February 23, 2006
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