Water Not (Yet) a Pollutant, EPA Concedes

EPA won't appeal stormwater ruling in Va.

The Environmental Protection agency says it won't appeal a judge's ruling that the agency overstepped its authority by attempting to regulate stormwater runoff as a pollutant.

U.S. District Judge Liam O'Grady in Alexandria ruled in January in favor of the Virginia Department of Transportation and the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, which challenged EPA's restrictions on the flow of stormwater into Accotink Creek. O'Grady said EPA can regulate pollutants such as sediment within stormwater, but not the water itself.

I guess it's a good thing water is still not a pollutant, since there's a whole lot of it falling out of the sky on the Atlantic coast.