November 30, 2021
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reached an agreement with two environmental groups and a Washington tribe to settle their decadelong Clean Water Act suit seeking to force the agency to regulate PCB contamination in the Spokane River, according to a notice to be published in the Federal Register on Wednesday.
September 22, 2020
A Washington federal judge on Tuesday rejected a push by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to throw out a lawsuit by the Sierra Club and other environmental groups pushing for officials to regulate PCB contamination in the Spokane River, deciding that the agency's compliance plan can be challenged.
July 20, 2020
A challenge to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's plan for cleaning up polychlorinated biphenyls in Washington state's Spokane River must be tossed because the plan is merely a schedule and isn't legally binding, the agency has told a federal court.
October 21, 2015
Sierra Club and the Center for Environmental Law and Policy must file a new complaint instead of seeking additional relief in their existing suit accusing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of failing to take adequate action to clean up toxic chemicals in the Spokane River, the EPA said Tuesday.
March 16, 2015
A Washington federal judge on Monday said the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency erred in approving a pollution task force as an alternative to a total maximum daily loads plan to address toxic chemicals in the Spokane River.
October 24, 2011
The Sierra Club and the Center for Environmental Law and Policy sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington state Friday for allegedly failing to approve a water quality cleanup plan to address toxic chemicals in the Spokane River.