Oregon State Public Interest Research Group, Inc. v. Pacific Coast Seafoods Co.

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• holding that a state permit did not trigger the CWA’s permit shield where “[n]othing in the federal or state statutes provides that a state‐issued SCO is the equivalent of an NPDES permit[]”
• noting that the CWA imposes strict liability for violations of NPDES permits and “the permit holder’s good faith is not relevant to the issue of liability”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).