( January 14, 2025, 2:57 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 13 invited the solicitor general to file a brief expressing the views of the United States on the issue of whether the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals was correct in 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)....