Railroad Company Properly Joined To Clean Water Act Suit, Magistrate Rules

PITTSBURGH - A federal magistrate judge in Pennsylvania on Oct. 26 denied Buffalo& Pittsburgh Railroad Inc.'s (BPRR) motion seeking dismissal of a Clean Water Act (CWA) lawsuit brought by two environmental groups, finding that it is a properly joined party because it has right of way access to land that may need to be remediated (PennEnvironment, et al. v. PPG Industries Inc., et al., No. 12-342, W.D. Pa., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 183752).
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