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Melissa Thorme counsels industrial and municipal clients in addressing their environmental compliance challenges and negotiating or litigating their regulatory enforcement actions. With nearly 35 years’…

Melissa Thorme counsels industrial and municipal clients in addressing their environmental compliance challenges and negotiating or litigating their regulatory enforcement actions. With nearly 35 years’ experience, Melissa advises business entities, including food processors, lumber companies, agricultural companies, contractors, marinas and boat yards, auto dismantlers, small manufacturing companies, and oil field waste-produced water facilities, in addition to sanitation districts, counties, and cities throughout California on matters related to NPDES, wastewater, and recycled water discharge permitting and waivers, TMDLs, and enforcement actions brought by regulatory agencies or in Clean Water Act/Proposition 65 citizen suits.

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In Waterkeeper Alliance v. EPA, the Ninth Circuit held that the Environmental Protection Agency failed to properly consider key factors when it declined to revise technology-based Effluent Limitations Guidelines and Standards (ELGs) for seven industrial categories. The ruling suggests the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) may face increased pressure to revisit existing discharge requirements across multiple

About

Melissa Thorme counsels industrial and municipal clients in addressing their environmental compliance challenges and negotiating or litigating their regulatory enforcement actions. With nearly 35 years’…

Melissa Thorme counsels industrial and municipal clients in addressing their environmental compliance challenges and negotiating or litigating their regulatory enforcement actions. With nearly 35 years’ experience, Melissa advises business entities, including food processors, lumber companies, agricultural companies, contractors, marinas and boat yards, auto dismantlers, small manufacturing companies, and oil field waste-produced water facilities, in addition to sanitation districts, counties, and cities throughout California on matters related to NPDES, wastewater, and recycled water discharge permitting and waivers, TMDLs, and enforcement actions brought by regulatory agencies or in Clean Water Act/Proposition 65 citizen suits.

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