The ruling could affect businesses and other cities that sit on bodies of water, including New York, Boston and Washington. San Francisco sued the EPA after the agency found the city in violation of ...

The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a blow to the Environmental Protection Agency in a ruling on Tuesday involving a wastewater treatment facility owned by the city of San Francisco that could make it harder ...

Technology to treat produced water has advanced. But critics warn against relaxing protections for disposal “of what is very ...

A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday made it harder for environmental regulators to limit water pollution, ruling for San Francisco in a case about the discharge ... that the EPA can set specific ...

The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 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 ...

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

The Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down rules regulating the discharge of water ... justices found that the EPA cannot impose generic prohibitions against violating water quality standards.

less specific EPA restrictions known as narrative rules, such as “no discharge of pollutants shall create pollution, contamination, or nuisance” as defined by California’s water code.

EPA to consider regulatory flexibility for treated wastewater from oil and gas extraction, including beneficial reuse and ...

The ruling could increase the workload of EPA and state permitting offices to enforce the Clean Water Act, at a time when the Trump administration is demanding deep budget cuts. The Supreme Court ...