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Supreme Court Ruling on EPA Water Permits
The United States Supreme Court has issued a significant ruling in the case of San Francisco v. EPA, directing the ...
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Supreme Court Says EPA Has No Authority to Impose “End-Result” Requirements in Clean Water Act Permits
On Tuesday, March 4, 2025, the Supreme Court issued an opinion in City and County of San Francisco, California v.
California bill would restore wetlands protections in wake of Supreme Court ruling
A Supreme Court ruling placed limits on federal protections for many streams and wetlands. A bill in California’s Legislature ...
Supreme Court Misses the Reality of EPA Clean Water Act Permits
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law’s Robert Weinstock and Alexa Longstaff say there are shortcomings to the Supreme Court ...
Supreme Court water ruling might have unexpectedly clean result in Southern California
An environmental lawyer who wrote an amicus brief in San Francisco v. EPA believes a criticized ruling actually means tougher ...
EPA Moves to Narrow Water Protections, Citing Supreme Court Ruling
The Clean Water Act’s ambiguous definition of "waters of the United States" led to a restrictive U.S. Supreme Court ...
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Supreme Court Rules EPA’s Wastewater Discharge Permits May Not Include “End-Result” Provisions
In an important environmental decision, the Supreme Court narrowed the range of discharge limitations under the Clean Water Act (“CWA”) for ...
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EPA announces review of WOTUS rule
As part of a slew of regulatory announcements made by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency last week, EPA Administrator ...
Supreme Court stripped wetland protections, but this SC town won't let developers eat away more
Bluffton becomes first local government in South Carolina to pass wetlands protection ordinance after a US Supreme Court ...
A controversial water rule is being revamped by the EPA
Called WOTUS, a controversial rule on what constitutes protected water is now being revamped. The rule is concerning to Utah farmers and other private property owners in the West due to the ...