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Center for Biological Diversity: EPA Petitioned to Update 47-Year-Old Toxic Pollutant List
August 01, 2023
PORTLAND, Oregon, Aug. 1 -- The Center for Biological Diversity issued the following news release on July 31, 2023:

Conservation groups submitted a formal legal petition today urging the Environmental Protection Agency to add more than 1,000 industrial and commercial pollutants to its outdated list of toxic pollutants requiring regulation under the Clean Water Act.

No pollutants have been added to the list in 47 years.

The petition, from Northwest Environme . . .

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