6th Circuit Reinstates Clean Water Act Suit Over Pesticide Use

Mealey's (December 18, 2019, 2:10 PM EST) -- CINCINNATI — A Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Dec. 17 reinstated a man’s citizen suit accusing a local sanitary district of violating the Clean Water Act (CWA) by failing to create a management plan for discharges of pesticide used to control mosquitoes, holding that his notice of intent to sue was sufficient because it listed the date of violation as the month the district’s National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit became effective (Matt Cooper v. Toledo Area Sanitary District, No. 19-3216, 6th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 37235)....