On Tuesday, the Supreme Court substantially weakened federal limitations on raw sewage discharge into nearby bodies of water.

That would violate the Clean Water Act, which generally prohibits the disposal of such ... or restraint is the plan that the ...

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

The U.S. Supreme Court sided with San Francisco on Tuesday in a ruling that narrows the Clean Water Act. The case pitted a ...

Brown, founder of the Orange County branch of Coastkeeper, suggested the bill would succeed if it can maintain the underlying goals of the Clean Water Act, which he believes has been a powerful ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has signaled that it could narrow which set of waters receive protections under the ...

The dissent, authored by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, suggests that the legal theory of five-vote majority decision was largely of the Court’s own making and contends that its narrow interpretation of ...

When it rains too much in San Francisco, the city's wastewater treatment plant can get overloaded. An overloaded wastewater treatment plant means ...

Supporters of SB 601 say the bill is a response to a 2023 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court and to a second Trump ...