Industrial facilities produce millions of pounds of hazardous chemical waste every year and dump it directly into U.S. waterways. Environmental advocates say the government isn’t doing enough to stop them.
Among the sectors highlighted in the lawsuit, filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco, are plastics molding, inorganic chemical production, and the manufacturing of pesticides and fertilizers. Effluent guidelines for these industries were last updated in the 1980s and ’90s, meaning companies have been allowed to dump contaminated wastewater without treating it with the most up-to-date technologies for pollution control.
. In the review, the EPA said it was taking action to control forever chemicals and pollution from slaughterhouses, but that it was “not prioritizing” updates for a number of other sectors — including those named in the environmental groups’ new lawsuit.
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