Mealey's (November 9, 2022, 9:17 AM EST) -- SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A county has statutory standing to sue as it falls within the Clean Water Act’s (CWA) “citizen” definition “based on the statute’s unambiguous language,” a California federal judge ruled in denying the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s (CDCR) motion for summary judgment in a consolidated case where an environmental group and a county allege that the CDCR violated two permits and the CWA by discharging polluted stormwater from a prison and its connected manufacturing facility into a creek....