Mealey's (July 3, 2019, 12:35 PM EDT) -- HAMMOND, Ind. — A federal magistrate judge in Indiana on June 28 denied Surfrider Foundation’s motion to consolidate its lawsuit with a similar suit filed by the government over discharges by U.S. Steel Corp. that allegedly violated the Clean Water Act, holding that a proposed settlement agreement in the government’s lawsuit could bar some of the group’s claims (Surfrider Foundation v. U.S. Steel Corporation, No. 18-cv-20, N.D. Ind., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 109031)....