Supreme Court, Clean Water Act
High court appears to support EPA despite concerns over undermining Clean Water Act
The U.S. Supreme Court appeared receptive to upholding the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's right to place generic limits on ocean sewage discharge as San Francisco took its contentious battle to the high court.
Supreme Court hints at sweeping ruling that could gut the Clean Water Act
San Francisco may have just handed the right-wing judges the ability to undermine decades of environmental law.
Water Dispute Before Supreme Court Gives Rise to Unusual Alliances
The justices heard arguments on Wednesday in a long-simmering dispute between San Francisco and the E.P.A. over regulation of water pollution.
San Francisco is suing the EPA over how specific water pollution permits should be
The U.S. Supreme Court will test how flexible the EPA and states can be in regulating water pollution under the Clean Water Act when it hears oral argument in City and County of San Francisco v. Environmental Protection Agency on Oct.
Supreme Court questions EPA water pollution permit powers
The Supreme Court appeared ready in oral arguments Wednesday to restrict the EPA’s ability to set broad water quality standards for sewage and other systems as part of a challenge from San Francisco to the agency’s powers under the Clean Water Act.
U.S. Supreme Court Backs EPA's Carbon Emission Plan
In a significant victory for the Biden administration, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled to allow the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to proceed with its strategy to curb carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants.
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Industrial waste fertilizer stink invading River Valley is topic of lawsuits in 3 states; Missouri groups threaten federal lawsuit
Most recently, two local environmental groups and a Missouri farmer put the Missouri Department of Natural Resources and six ...
Feds: Lithium developer illegally drained wetlands near Salton Sea
Controlled Thermal Resources' Hells Kitchen president has signed a consent order with US EPA to restore the wetlands ...
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Environmentalists, state regulators grapple with uncertainty in new Clean Water Act interpretation
An analysis from the nonprofit Environmental Defense Fund says up to a quarter million wetlands in Arizona may have lost ...
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Venoil to pay $58K for violating the Clean Water Act
Recycler to pay $236K for hazardous waste violations and $642K to reduce organic air emissions At GRR’s facility in Attalla, ...
San Francisco water discharge dispute debated at U.S. Supreme Court
The question of where and how San Francisco should measure its stormwater discharge was debated in the U.S. Supreme Court on ...
‘Human health’ at risk: DC AG accuses construction company of polluting Anacostia River
D.C.’s Attorney General has filed a lawsuit against Fort Myer Construction, accusing the company of contaminating the city’s ...
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Denver’s Gross Reservoir expansion violates Clean Water Act, federal judge rules
A federal judge ruled Denver Water's permit to expand Gross Reservoir dam violates U.S. environmental laws, and the parties ...
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San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu on the city’s Clean Water Act case
San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu discusses City and County of San Francisco v. EPA, in which the court is considering whether the Environmental Protection Agency violates the Clean Water Act ...
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Justice Kagan, if "some people like less prescriptive standards" why haven't any members of the regulated community said so in San Francisco v. EPA?
Today the United States Supreme Court heard from lawyers representing the City and County of San Francisco and lawyers for the United ...