Amy Coney Barrett joined the liberal justices in a dissent against Samuel Alito—and his thinly veiled policy agenda.

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

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

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

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

On March 4, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court in City and County of San Francisco v. Environmental Protection Agency held that ...

San Francisco argued that Clean Water Act permits should function like recipes that restrict specific ingredients in a dish, ...

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 ...

Americans are getting antsy about the possibility of poop in the drinking water thanks to a new interpretation of the Clean ...

The Supreme Court recently ruled that the Clean Water Act (CWA) does not authorize the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to impose “generic” ...

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

A new lawsuit alleges that the city of Cannon Beach is regularly discharging untreated human waste into its waterways, ...