Group Sues School Bus Company to Halt Puget Sound Pollution

A Washington state environmental group sued to stop a school bus company from violating its stormwater permit and polluting tributaries of the Puget Sound.

The Waste Action Project alleges that a Tacoma, Wash., school bus facility operated by First Student Inc., is polluting the Thea Foss Waterway, a tributary to the Puget Sound, with stormwater above limits stipulated by a 2014 industrial stormwater permit issued under the Clean Water Act.

The permit allows the company to discharge stormwater pollution into the waterway, but stormwater flowing from the facility violates the conditions of the permit and effluent standards set forth under ...