(May 13, 2020, 1:45 PM EDT) -- HAMMOND, Ind. — An environmental group says in a May 11 brief filed in federal court in Indiana that the U.S. Supreme Court’s April 23 Clean Water Act (CWA) ruling should be considered when deciding if the amount of the civil penalty in a proposed settlement between the government and U.S. Steel Corp. over an April 2017 hexavalent chromium spill into Burns Waterway is adequate because the high court held that permitting is required for discharges that occur directly from a point source or if a “functional equivalent of a direct discharge” of a contaminant reaches a navigable waterway of the United States through the ground (United States, et al. v. U.S. Steel Corp., No. 18-cv-00127, N.D. Ind.)....