Judge Allows Environmental Group To Intervene In Stalled Pennsylvania CWA Action

Mealey's (January 12, 2022, 5:12 PM EST) -- SCRANTON, Pa. — A federal judge in Pennsylvania on Dec. 17 granted an environmental group’s motion to intervene in a long-running lawsuit that claims that a state municipal authority is violating federal and state clean water laws, ruling that the group’s delay in entering the case was justified because it did not learn that the parties had not made adequate progress in achieving the goals of a partial consent decree until it received responses to a public records request....