San Francisco v. EPA: Impact on Clean Water Act Permittees Tommy Beaudreau, Jarrod Ingles, PhD, Peggy Otum WilmerHale + Follow Contact ...

San Francisco has argued these "generic" prohibitions expose it to significant liability for pollution under the federal Clean Water Act.

The 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 ...

City and County of San Francisco vs. EPA: Implications for Clean Water Act Permittees Mary Lynn K. Coffee, Byron Gee, Willis Hon Nossaman LLP + Follow Contact ...

At issue in the case is how the Clean Water Act—and, though it, the EPA—regulates offshore water pollution. The question is particularly important for San Francisco.

When the Supreme Court takes up an important environmental appeal Wednesday from the City of San Francisco, the justices will be asked to settle a dispute that at least some city leaders are ...

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 ...

Justice Elena Kagan asked. Under the Clean Water Act, the EPA works with potential sources of pollution to govern water discharge, often through specific permits such as San Francisco’s.

By Ruth Dusseault"The Court held that the Clean Water Act allows EPA to issue water quality permits that contain limits only on a permitholder's discharges, which they can control, and not permits ...

San Francisco officials had argued that the EPA’s broad requirements under the Clean Water Act — stating that the city must not violate “any applicable water quality standard” — left ...