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 ...

The Supreme Court dealt another blow to federal environmental protections on Tuesday in a major water pollution case. In a 5–4 ruling in City and County of San Francisco v. EPA, the justices ...

For its part, the EPA invoked Section 1311(b)(1)(C) of the Clean Water Act, which allows permit writers to insert “any more stringent limitation, including those necessary to meet water quality ...

The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Tuesday that the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) rules for the city of San Francisco under the Clean Water Act on raw sewage discharge are overly vague ...

Handing down a 5-4 decision, the court narrowed the Clean Water Act, America’s landmark water pollution law, and ruled that the EPA set requirements too broadly in issuing permits for the city ...

Justice Amy Coney Barrett and the court’s three liberal justices dissented in part, arguing that the EPA had the authority to impose generic prohibitions under the terms of the Clean Water Act.

arguing that the EPA had the authority to impose generic prohibitions under the terms of the Clean Water Act. “The concern that the technology-based effluent limitations may fall short is on dis ...

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A 2023 decision by the Supreme Court, in Sackett vs. the EPA, already fundamentally changed the Clean Water Act. For decades prior to the Sackett ruling, federal regulators used the Clean Water ...

Alito wrote that the EPA exceeded its powers under the landmark Clean Water Act of 1972 by imposing undefined requirements on permit-holders related to water quality standards in the receiving ...