Pennsylvania groups fight court ruling on pollution fine
Tuesday, May 30, 2017
Nearly 100 elected officials, businesses, and environmental groups have signed on to legal briefs in support of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection that could restrict maximum fines for waterway pollution, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
The DEP is appealing a Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania decision from January in a suit brought by natural gas production company EQT Corp. The court found that fines for spills into streams and groundwater “must be based on the duration of the initial release and not on the days pollution continues to flow through the hydrologic system or seep out of contaminated soil.”
The case has the potential to revise a 40-year-old interpretation of the state’s signature clean water law.
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