(September 20, 2024, 2:47 PM EDT) -- PASADENA, Calif. — A restaurant accused of allowing a “low break” firework to fall into the Alamitos Bay during a Fourth of July celebration received a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit for future events, which a divided Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals found mooted an appeal filed by a environmental group alleging violations of the Clean Water Act (CWA)....