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KY WATERWAYS ALLIANCE v. KY UTILITIES CO.

No. 18-5115.

905 F.3d 925 (2018)

KENTUCKY WATERWAYS ALLIANCE; Sierra Club, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. KENTUCKY UTILITIES COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: September 24, 2018.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Thomas Cmar , EARTHJUSTICE, Oak Park, Illinois, for Appellants. Paul D. Clement , KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Thomas Cmar , EARTHJUSTICE, Oak Park, Illinois, Benjamin Locke , EARTHJUSTICE, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Joe F. Childers , JOE F. CHILDERS & ASSOCIATES, Lexington, Kentucky, Matthew E. Miller , SIERRA CLUB, Washington, D.C., for Appellants. Paul D. Clement , Erin E. Murphy , KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP, Washington, D.C., John C. Bender , DINSMORE & SHOHL LLP, Lexington, Kentucky, F. William Brownell , Eric J. Murdock , HUNTON ANDREWS KURTH LLP, Washington, D.C., Robert M. Rolfe , HUNTON ANDREWS KURTH LLP, Richmond, Virginia, Nash E. Long, III , Brent A. Rosser , HUNTON ANDREWS KURTH LLP, Charlotte, North Carolina, J. Gregory Cornett , Robert J. Ehrler , LG&E AND KU ENERGY LLC, Louisville, Kentucky, Sheryl G. Snyder , FROST BROWN TODD LLC, Louisville, Kentucky, for Appellee. Erin M. Palmer , OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF ALABAMA, Montgomery, Alabama, Thomas A. Lorenzen , CROWELL & MORING LLP, Washington, D.C., for Amici Curiae.

SUHRHEINRICH, J., delivered the opinion of the court in which GIBBONS, J., joined, and CLAY, J., joined in part. CLAY, J. (pp. 940-47), delivered a separate opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part.

OPINION

Pollutants can find their way into bodies of water in a variety of ways. Sometimes they travel by air and settle into lakes, rivers, oceans, and the like. Sometimes pipes dump pollutants directly into those waters. In this case, we consider pollution that reaches surface waters by way of subsurface...

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