Mealey's ( April 3, 2018, 1:45 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency violated the Clean Water Act when approving the total maximum daily load (TMDL) of trash that can be discharged into the Anacostia River because the limit first required removal of 1.3 million pounds of trash, a federal judge in the District of Columbia ruled March 30, finding that the agency’s decision ran afoul of its own regulations (Natural Resource Defense Council v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, No. 16-1861. D. D.C., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 54266)....