{"id":11739,"date":"2022-02-28T11:51:46","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T16:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/?p=11739"},"modified":"2022-02-28T11:51:58","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T16:51:58","slug":"clf-announces-plans-to-sue-mwra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/clf-announces-plans-to-sue-mwra\/","title":{"rendered":"CLF Announces Plans to Sue MWRA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) has issued a notice to MWRA that it intends to sue for failing to enforce its industrial pretreatment regulations. A copy of the letter can be viewed on CLF&#8217;s website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clf.org\/newsroom\/mass-water-resources-authority-failing-to-protect-water-quality%ef%bf%bc\/\">here<\/a>. CLF alleges that MWRA is not adequately enforcing these regulations, and that this could lead to toxic chemicals being released from the Deer Island Treatment Plant into Boston Harbor.<\/p>\n<p>MWRA staff is looking into the claims and will have more updates in future. The purpose of CLF&#8217;s letter is to provide a 60-day window for EPA to take enforcement action and for MWRA to comply or enter into settlement negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>Advisory Board staff will continue to monitor this ongoing matter as it develops and report back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) has issued a notice to MWRA that it intends to sue for failing to enforce its industrial pretreatment regulations. A copy of the letter can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-11739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-post","tag-npdes","has-not-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}