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The 2012 World’s Worst Pollution Problems Report sets out to quantify the human health impacts from major sources of hazardous pollution in low to middle-income countries. In particular the focus is on sites in the developing world where toxic pollution has occurred because of industrial activity. 1 This evaluation of industries and pollutants is based on data collected by the Blacksmith Institute and Green Cross Switzerland through investigations of pollution hotspots around the world, principally abandoned (“legacy” or “orphan”) sites and informal artisanal activities. This report is compiled using analysis of the Blacksmith Institute’s site database and a review of industry. | United States Court of Appeals For the First Circuit No. 11-1474 UPPER BLACKSTONE WATER POLLUTION ABATEMENT DISTRICT Petitioner v. UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY Respondent. No. 11-1610 CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC. Petitioner v. UPPER BLACKSTONE WATER POLLUTION ABATEMENT DISTRICT Intervenor UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY Respondent. PETITIONS FOR REVIEW OF A FINAL PERMIT DECISION BY THE UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY Before Lynch Chief Judge Souter Associate Justice and Stahl Circuit Judge. The Hon. David H. Souter Associate Justice Ret. of the Supreme Court of the United States sitting by designation. Robert D. Cox Jr. with whom Douglas T. Radigan Bowditch Dewey LLP Fredric P. Andes and Barnes Thornburg LLP were on brief for petitioner Upper Blackstone Water Pollution Abatement District. Christopher M. Kilian with whom Anthony . Iarrapino was on brief for petitioner Conservation Law Foundation. Madeline Fleisher with whom Ignacia S. Moreno Assistant Attorney General . Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resources Division and Samir Bukhari Ira W. Leighton Karen A. McGuire . Environmental Protection Agency were on brief for respondent. Donald L. Anglehart on brief for City of Marlborough amicus curiae. David M. Moore City Solicitor and Jennifer H. Beaton Assistant City Solicitor on brief for City of Worcester amicus curiae. Karma B. Brown Brooks M. Smith Hunton Williams LLP and Nathan Gardner-Andrews on brief for National Association of Clean Water Agencies amicus curiae. August 3 2012 -2- LYNCH Chief Judge. These petitions seek review of certain effluent limitations imposed by the Environmental Protection Agency EPA in a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System NPDES permit on the discharges of Upper Blackstone Water Pollution Abatement District a sewage treatment plant located in central Massachusetts. The District s discharges are into the headwaters of a polluted river which in due .