( October 23, 2024, 12:32 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A group of marine cargo terminal operators are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling that two Washington state-issued National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits applied to the entirety of a 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)....