Association to Protect Hammersley, Eld, and Totten Inlets, a Washington Non-Profit Corporation v. Taylor Resources, Inc.

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• considering the definition of “pollution” to determine whether biological materials emitted by mussels are “pollutants”
• “hold[ing] the 5 || withdrawal of the complaint did not become effective as a matter of law”
• applying ejusdem generis even though the Act’s definition of pollutant is not an illustrative list and “biological materials” is not a catchall phrase following more-specific enumerated categories
• Rule 19(a)(2) was “wholly inapplicable” because the agency failed to claim an interest that would be impaired by the litigation
• “That Ecology has decided that an NPDES permit is not needed 11 warrants consideration but does not divest the federal courts of jurisdiction.”
• ‘The Clean Water Act explicitly allows private citizens to bring enforcement actions 10 || against any person alleged to be in violation of federal pollution control requirements.”

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