Environment
The Clean Water Act and the Coral Reef: A Decision in County of Maui v. Hawai’i Wildlife Fund
Sara A. Colangelo
In the Supreme Court’s first Clean Water Act case in more than a decade, the Court ruled that a federal permit is required if the addition of pollutants through groundwater is the “functional equivalent” of a direct release into navigable waters from a point source, settling a long-standing dispute about the applicability of the Act to indirect discharges.