In a case that centered on unusual alliances and unpleasant descriptions of raw sewage being released into San Francisco Bay ...
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law’s Robert Weinstock and Alexa Longstaff say there are shortcomings to the Supreme Court ...
The 5-4 ruling found that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency permits were too vague in their interpretation of the Clean Water Act.
The Supreme Court recently ruled that the Clean Water Act (CWA) does not authorize the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to impose “generic” ...
Americans are getting antsy about the possibility of poop in the drinking water thanks to a new interpretation of the Clean ...
San Francisco argued that Clean Water Act permits should function like recipes that restrict specific ingredients in a dish, ...
The dissent, authored by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, suggests that the legal theory of five-vote majority decision was largely of the Court’s own making and contends that its narrow interpretation of ...
But over the past 50 years, some places have occasionally run afoul of the act. In San Francisco, the wastewater system ...
With its opinion in San Francisco v. EPA, the U.S. Supreme Court has again acted to "right" the implementation of the federal Clean Water Act ...
Conservatives on the Supreme Court have again rescued the nation from out-of-control bureaucrats inflicting prohibitive costs ...
The Supreme Court’s ruling weakens the EPA’s ability to enforce water pollution standards, benefiting corporate interests at the expense of public health and environmental safety. With enforcement ...
Justice Amy Coney Barrett said the Supreme Court reached a "puzzling" conclusion in a case on water regulations issued by the EPA.