( June 4, 2025, 8:33 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States says the U.S. Supreme Court should grant a petition for writ of certiorari filed by the operators of a Tacoma, Wash., marine cargo terminal asking whether the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals was correct in ruling that two state-issued National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits applied to the entirety of the terminal where stormwater discharges entered into Puget Sound on the grounds that private citizens cannot bring actions in federal court to enforce certain state permit conditions under the Clean Water Act (CWA)....