EPA to Finalize Delaware River’s Stalled Water Quality Standards

The EPA said Tuesday it intends to finalize a water quality rule for the Delaware River that was proposed during the Biden administration.

The planned rule, first proposed in 2023, would help protect two species of sturgeon by revising water quality standards for a 38-mile stretch of the river between Philadelphia and Wilmington, Del., according to the text published in the Federal Register. The standards were last updated in 1967.

The Delaware Riverkeeper Network, a conservation group, sued the Environmental Protection Agency in October in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania to force it to finalize ...