San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu discusses City and County of San Francisco v.EPA, in which the court is considering whether the Environmental Protection Agency violates the Clean Water Act when ...

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).

In City and County of San Francisco v. Environmental Protection Agency, 604 U.S. ___, 145 S. Ct. 704 (2025), in a 5-4 decision issued on March 4, the Supreme Court of the United States struck down ...

Supreme Court sides with San Francisco in raw sewage case, limits EPA ability to enforce Clean Water Act ... Handing down a 5-4 decision, the court narrowed the Clean Water Act, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Clean Water Act, enacted in 1972, allows the EPA to set clear discharge limits as well as “any more stringent limitation” the agency views as “necessary to meet water quality standards.” ...

Under the Clean Water Act, San Francisco is required to have a permit “to ensure that the discharge does not hurt water quality or people’s health.” San Francisco has been disputing the terms of its ...

Lower appeals courts have split on interpretations of the Clean Water Act. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the law requires the EPA to set specific limits for surface water quality.

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 ...