San Francisco appealed to EPA’s Environmental Appeals Board (EAB), objecting to, among other things, the two new end-result provisions. See City and Cty. of San Francisco, 18 E.A.D. 322, 325 (2020).

News With Help From 'Loper Bright,' San Francisco Says EPA Misreads Clean Water Act The California city, locked in a legal battle with the federal agency over a permit for sewage discharge into ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear a lawsuit from San Francisco against the Environmental Protection Agency challenging Clean Water Act regulations the city argues are overly vague.

In a 5–4 ruling in City and County of San Francisco v. ... Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote for the court, ruled that the agency had gone beyond what the Clean Water Act allowed.

T he 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 ...

On March 4, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its opinion in the case City and County of San Francisco v. ... Implications for Clean Water Act Permittees. Mary Lynn K. Coffee, Byron Gee, ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Environmental groups say the creeks and streams swollen by our recent storms are a perfect example of a system the Federal Clean Water Act was designed to protect, an ...

Chris White is a reporter for The Daily Caller News Foundation. The Environmental Protection Agency issued a notice Wednesday accusing San Francisco of violating the Clean Water Act, a 1970s ...

According to San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu, the case started about a decade ago when the EPA included generic prohibitions against violating water quality standards in discharge permits.

Concerns about the high court weakening the Clean Water Act are behind a push to get the city to reconsider its position. Lawmakers in San Francisco are launching a last-ditch effort to kill the ...

The Trump administration ratcheted up its feud with California on Wednesday as the Environmental Protection Agency issued a notice accusing San Francisco of violating the federal Clean Water Act.