January 31, 2023
State and tribal officials in Washington have agreed to drop their federal lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency now that the Biden administration plans to set higher water-quality standards to protect Washington's waters, including where tribes have treaty rights to fish.
March 30, 2022
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday proposed rolling back the Trump administration's decision to approve water quality standards for Washington state that the agency now says were not protective enough.
July 17, 2020
The Boeing Co. on Friday told a Washington state federal judge that Obama-era water quality standards imposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency would have resulted in "impossible" costs, and that the EPA under President Donald Trump was correct to relax the limits.
May 27, 2020
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and a group of trade organizations on Tuesday asked a Washington federal judge to toss Washington state's and tribes' challenges to an agency directive said to weaken local water quality standards at the request of the wood products industry.
March 10, 2020
Two Washington tribes can join the state's suit accusing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of weakening local water quality standards at the behest of the wood products industry, a federal judge said Monday.
July 09, 2019
A Washington tribe has told a federal court that it wants to intervene in the state's suit accusing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of violating the Clean Water Act by weakening the state's water quality standards at the request of the wood products industry.
June 07, 2019
Washington has told a federal court that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency violated the Clean Water Act by weakening the state's water quality standards at the request of the wood products industry, arguing the federal government didn't have the authority to make the change.