The landmark decision alters the NPDES permit landscape, shifting the focus to specific actions over general outcomes.

When it rains too much in San Francisco, the city's wastewater treatment plant can get overloaded. An overloaded wastewater treatment plant means ...

The Environmental Protection Agency is reviewing regulatory changes the Biden administration made that broadened the ...

On March 4, 2025, in City & County of San Francisco v. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Clean Water Act does not authorize “end-result” provisions in National ...

In a dissenting opinion, Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote that the majority had badly misread the text and history of the Clean Water Act’s provisions at issue. (The court’s three liberal justices ...

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that sewage plants and other industries cannot avoid environmental requirements under landmark clean-water protections when they send dirty water on an indirect route.

Northwestern Pritzker School of Law’s Robert Weinstock and Alexa Longstaff say there are shortcomings to the Supreme Court ...

Three former Environmental Protection Agency leaders say rollbacks proposed by the Trump administration endanger the lives of ...

The Trump administration announced a wave of regulatory rollbacks on Wednesday including a repeal of Biden-era emissions ...

He unveiled the Trump administration’s widely anticipated assault on regulation on all fronts at once, announcing 31 separate ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has signaled it could narrow which set of waters receive protections under the Clean Water Act — and will narrow protections for wetlands in the meantime.

This week’s SCOTUS opinion in City and County of San Francisco v Environmental Protection Agency basically rewrote the Clean Water Act to achieve that result. In this week’s bonus episode for ...