Envtl. Law & Policy Ctr. v. U.S. Envtl. Agency

James G. Carr, Sr. U.S. District Judge

This case concerns the Clean Water Act (CWA) 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq. , and Ohio's long-standing, persistent reluctance and, on occasion, refusal, to comply with the CWA. As a result of the State's inattention to the need, too long manifest, to take effective steps to ensure that Lake Erie (the Lake) will dependably provide clean, healthful water, the risk remains that sometime in the future, upwards of 500,000 Northwest Ohio residents will again, as they did in August 2014, be deprived of clean, safe water for drinking, bathing, and other normal and…