Environmentalists and a Cape Cod beach club have agreed to settle a water pollution dispute in light of a major Supreme Court ruling on the scope of the Clean Water Act.
The Conservation Law Foundation and the Wychmere Beach Club on Tuesday notified the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit that they had resolved their legal fight over the venue’s wastewater management system.
The deal is the first major settlement to follow the Supreme Court’s April decision in County of Maui v. Hawai’i Wildlife Fund. The justices ruled that indirect water pollution triggers federal permitting requirements when it’s ...
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