Nation’s Largest Homebuilder Agrees To Pay Penalty To Settle Clean Water Act Claims

(April 15, 2024, 8:49 AM EDT) -- BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The nation’s largest homebuilder, alongside the United States, Alabama and the South Carolina Department of Health, jointly filed a consent decree in Alabama federal court that will see the homebuilder pay $400,000 to resolve Clean Water Act (CWA) claims brought against it for its alleged discharge of pollutants in stormwater from its construction sites....