Iowa Court Sides with Environmental Groups on Implementation of Clean Water Anti-degradation Standards
posted 3/25/2016
An Iowa District Court late last week found the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) failed to appropriately enforce the state's clean water anti-degradation standards when it approved a wastewater treatment project that would increase pollution in the Des Moines River Watershed. The ruling is the first legal case addressing the enforcement of the anti-degradation standards since the Iowa Supreme Court upheld the standards in 2014.
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