( July 2, 2025, 2:08 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court denied a petition for certiorari filed by the operators of a Tacoma, Wash., marine cargo terminal that asked whether the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals was correct in ruling that two state-issued National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits applied to the entirety of the terminal where stormwater discharges entered into Puget Sound and that private citizens could not bring actions in federal court to enforce certain state permit conditions under the Clean Water Act (CWA)....