The Environmental Protection Agency overstepped its authority in trying to regulate water flow to protect the habitat of worms, snails and insects in Accotink Creek, Fairfax County officials charge.

Fairfax is the latest community to sue the federal agency over storm water runoff standards that local officials said could cost hundreds of millions of dollars to meet and may do little to benefit the worms and bugs.

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