60 craft breweries from across the country filed a brief in support of environmental advocates who are fighting the deregulation attempt in a case before the Supreme Court.
The environmental groups, represented by Earthjustice, originally sued Maui County in 2012. Their supporters say the county and the Trump administration are essentially asking the Supreme Court to redefine the scope of the landmark 1972 environmental legislation that many credit with cleaning up and restoring the integrity of America's waterways.
The 60 breweries have joined a group of former EPA administrators, 13 states, a Native American tribe and clean water advocates in filing briefs in support of Earthjustice's position. “EPA just flipped on 30 plus years of interpretation of that decision and is saying Maui is correct. EPA has never taken that position before.”That undercuts the entire point of the legislation, said Mark Ryan, a leading expert on the Clean Water Act who worked for 24 years as a senior litigator for the EPA.
The rule change posed by the EPA, or a favorable Supreme Court decision, would essentially allow groups to circumvent the need for the permits by just discharging their waste into groundwater.And it could also blast a gigantic hole in the burgeoning craft brewing industry.
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