( October 27, 2025, 9:47 AM EDT) -- COOKEVILLE, Tenn. — A Tennessee city that violated the Clean Water Act (CWA) and its state-issued National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit by illegally discharging pollutants from its sewage treatment plant into the Cumberland River agreed to pay nearly $80,000 in civil penalties and more than $7,800 in damages and to spearhead a series of remediation actions to settle a lawsuit filed by an environmental nonprofit organization in federal court....