September 28, 2023
The state’s lawsuit comes a day after lawyers for the Sierra Club and Friends of the Chicago River filed their own complaint in Cook County Circuit Court. Both groups had threatened action under a provision of the federal Clean Water Act that allows citizens to sue polluters if government regulators fail to respond within 60 days.
Building records obtained by lawyers for the nonprofit groups show the Trump Organization has for years underestimated its Chicago River withdrawals by about 44%. The new lawsuits correct the Trump Organization’s math when its employees converted gallons per minute siphoned from the river to millions of gallons of water withdrawn each day.
Read more via the Chicago Tribune.