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Environmental

Jul. 24, 2013

Environmental group can proceed with lawsuit against recycler, 9th Circuit rules

Environmentalists can sue a scrap metal recycler in Butte County for Clean Water Act violations for allegedly discharging hazardous contaminants into wetlands, a 9th Circuit panel held Monday.

By John Roemer
Daily Journal Staff Writer

Environmentalists can sue a scrap metal recycler in Butte County for Clean Water Act violations for allegedly discharging hazardous contaminants into wetlands, a 9th Circuit panel held Monday. The ruling reversed Senior U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. of Sacramento. The panel held that Burrell had wrongly cited federal statutes that would have barred the suit only if state agencies had begun an action to require complianc...

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