The Result: The Supreme Court held that the EPA lacked authority under the Clean Water Act to issue pollutant-discharge permit provisions that make a permittee responsible for the quality of the ...

The ruling could increase the workload of EPA and state permitting offices to enforce the Clean Water Act, at a time when the Trump administration is demanding deep budget cuts. The Supreme Court ...

US Supreme Court Reins in EPA Power to Police Water Pollution Discharge By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a blow to the Environmental Protection Agency in a ruling ...

The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that Environmental Protection Agency’s rules for the city of San Francisco under the Clean Water Act are overly vague, siding with the city's appeal of a lower court.

The decision undercuts the agency’s Clean Water Act enforcement authority. The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that EPA cannot enforce requirements in wastewater permits that “do not spell out ...

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court ... water supply. As Justice Amy Coney Barrett explained in dissent, the court “offers nothing to substantiate” its “puzzling” conclusion—nothing, that is ...

Some had voiced concerns that the 6-3 conservative majority on the Supreme Court would use the case to weaken clean water regulations nationwide, going even further than San Francisco had requested.

By Abbie VanSickle and Adam Liptak Reporting from Washington The Supreme Court sided with San Francisco on Tuesday in a challenge to water quality regulations issued by the Environmental ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down rules regulating the discharge of water pollution, narrowing the landmark Clean Water Act in an unusual case that pitted one of the nation’s greenest ...

A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday made it harder for environmental regulators to limit water pollution, ruling for San Francisco in a case about the discharge of raw sewage that sometimes ...

only making the city directly responsible for the water quality being good, according to Bloomberg Law. And the city argued that was too vague, with the Supreme Court agreeing. Justice Alito ...