A Supreme Court ruling placed limits on federal protections for many streams and wetlands. A bill in California’s Legislature ...

Bluffton becomes first local government in South Carolina to pass wetlands protection ordinance after a US Supreme Court ...

The future of water pollution regulation in Pennsylvania is murky following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that narrowed the ...

The United States Supreme Court has issued a significant ruling in the case of San Francisco v. EPA, directing the ...

The justices ruled that the agency cannot impose generic prohibitions against violating water quality standards.

The Supreme Court's conservative majority ruled for San Francisco in limiting the power of environmental regulators to ...

Tuesday that the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) rules for the city of San Francisco under the Clean Water Act on raw sewage discharge are overly vague, siding ...

But over the past 50 years, some places have occasionally run afoul of the act. In San Francisco, the wastewater system discharges a mix of sewage and stormwater into the bay during major storms, ...

The Clean Water Act’s ambiguous definition of "waters of the United States" led to a restrictive U.S. Supreme Court ...

An environmental lawyer who wrote an amicus brief in San Francisco v. EPA believes a criticized ruling actually means tougher ...

Some worry a U.S. Supreme Court decision could make Charleston's local waterbodies more vulnerable to fecal contamination, a ...

Northwestern Pritzker School of Law’s Robert Weinstock and Alexa Longstaff say there are shortcomings to the Supreme Court ...