The Department of Justice filed a complaint against the water and sewer authority in Washington, D.C., on Monday after more than 240 million gallons of raw sewage spilled into the Potomac River this ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department filed a complaint Monday in federal court against the city of Washington, D.C., and its water and sewer authority, seeking financial penalties for their role ...

Maryland's Attorney General and the Department of the Environment (MDE) are suing a Washington, D.C. water utility company over the Potomac River sewage spill that they claim contaminated the river.

The Justice Department and the Maryland Department of the Environment have filed separate lawsuits against D.C. Water over the pollution of the Potomac River due to a massive sewage spill from a ...

The lawsuits allege that DC Water knew that its sewer pipe was at risk of failure and seek penalties associated with cleaning up the river. The Trump administration and Maryland sued DC Water this ...

The Department of Justice and the state of Maryland have filed lawsuits against the District and its water/sewage utility over a January pipe rupture that caused a historic sewage spill and ...

The federal government and Maryland filed lawsuits against DC Water three months after a massive pipeline rupture released billions of gallons of sewage into the Potomac River. The rupture of the ...