Legal Opinion
Dioxin/Organochlorine Center v. Clarke
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 22, 1995No. Nos. 93-35973, 93-36000PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEAVY, Circuit Judge:
Appellants, environmental groups and paper and pulp mills, challenge on opposing grounds the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) on appellants’ claims that the EPA violated the Clean Water Act (“Act”), 33 U.S.C. § 1251, et seq., by establishing total maximum daily load limits for the discharge of the toxic pollutant dioxin into the Columbia River. We affirm.
FACTS AND PRIOR PROCEEDINGS
In the late 1980’s, a series of EPA-sponsored and independent biological studies revealed that high levels of…
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