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SCOTUS Rules in Favor of Sewage: You Can’t Make This Sh** Up

Union of Concerned Scientists

This is why the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s historic investments provided a long overdue federal commitment to improving and protecting water quality (and why current threats to it and the agencies like EPA administering funds are so misguided). Upgrading infrastructure is expensive! San Francisco City and County v.

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U.S. Supreme Court Narrowly Construes Permitting Program Under the Clean Water Act, Limiting EPA’s Authority

Vermont Law

Supreme Court Narrowly Construes Permitting Program Under the Clean Water Act, Limiting EPAs Authority By Stuart Silverman On March 4, 2025, in City and County of San Francisco v. Those requirements were contrary to the effluent limitations approach mandated by Congress when it enacted the Act. California ex rel.

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Wetland Protections Remain Bogged Down in Mystery 

Union of Concerned Scientists

It is mind- bog -gling, syllable pun intended, that scientists still do not know how many wetlands lost protection in last year’s crippling of the Clean Water Act by the Supreme Court. A 2019 study in the journal of Marine and Freshwater Research found that the world’s wetlands deliver $47 trillion a year in ecosystem services.

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How to Take on a Pipeline (and Win)

Union of Concerned Scientists

In contrast, V-SCI is the passion project of an all volunteer group of graduate students, formed in 2019. With degrees in environmental science and the law, Sligh has a foot in both the science and policy worlds and a unique perspective on their intersection. billion company that lists 950 miles of pipeline as just one of its assets.

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Lake Erie’s Failed Algae Strategy Hurts Poor Communities the Most

Circle of Blue

“It really does come down to the fact that poor people, that have the least ability to pay, are the ones who are forced to come up with the dollars to upgrade their infrastructure, but the problem is coming from external forces,” says Nick Schroeck, the former director of the Great Lakes Environmental Law Center. The victory was short-lived.

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Supreme Court Granted Certiorari to a Clean Water Act Case: Hawai‘i Wildlife Fund v. County of Maui

Vermont Law

Four non-profit environmental groups (Hawai‘i Wildlife Fund, Sierra Club-Maui Group, Surfrider Foundation, and West Maui Preservation Association) brought a suit against the County of Maui, alleging that the county violated the Clean Water Act (CWA) because they did not have a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit.

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Storm Sewers and Impervious Cover in Maryland: A Further Update

E2 Law Blog

The Maryland Department of the Environment has for many years sought to meet its obligations under the Clean Water Act and the Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load in part by imposing obligations on municipal separate storm sewers (MS4s) beyond the statutory minimum imposition of control to the “maximum extent practicable” or “MEP.”