| CEC Issues Factual Records on Longstanding Complaints | 11 April 14 |
On 11 March 2014, the (CEC) agreed to make public the factual record concerning submission SEM-05-003 (Environmental Pollution in Hermosillo II), filed August 30, 2005, by Academia Sonorense de Derechos Humanos, A.C., and Domingo Gutiérrez Mendívil. The submission deals with an assertion that Mexico is failing to effectively enforce prevention, monitoring, oversight, and air pollution control provisions of various Mexican environmental laws in the city of Hermosillo, Mexico. On 11 March 2014, the Secretariat of the CEC submitted to the CEC Council a final factual record on submission SEM-04-005 (Coal-fired Power Plants). The submission was filed September 20, 2004 by ten Canadian and US environmental organizations, represented by Waterkeeper Alliance and Ecojustice (formerly Sierra Legal Defence Fund). The final factual record includes comments received from the Government of Canada on the accuracy of the draft factual record. In the Coal-fired Power Plants submission it is asserted the United States is failing to effectively enforce the federal Clean Water Act (CWA) against coal-fired power plants for mercury emissions that allegedly degrade thousands of rivers, lakes, and other water bodies across the US. Specifically, the Submitters assert the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has failed to effectively enforce water quality standard and total maximum daily load (TMDL) provisions of Section (§) 303 of the CWA, and permitting provisions required by the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) pursuant to §402 of the CWA.
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