The Supreme Court dealt another blow to federal environmental protections on Tuesday in a major water pollution case. In a 5–4 ruling in City and County of San Francisco v. EPA, the justices ...

Environmentalists feared the Supreme Court would go beyond the question and use the case to undermine the EPA's authority as a whole after several high court rulings chipped away at environmental ...

Supreme Court Rules the Clean Water Act Doesn’t Actually Require That Water Be Clean. ... Alito wrote for the court, authorizes the EPA to place any “limitation” on sewage discharge.

Illinois’ share of clean water grants to states would dip to $11 million next year, compared with $105.5 million this year.

A 2023 Supreme Court decision ruled that wetlands would only count for Clean Water Act protection if they had a “continuous surface connection” with adjacent streams, oceans, rivers and lakes ...

In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the Clean Power Plan, ruling that the EPA lacked authority under section 111 of the federal Clean Air Act to require existing power plants to shift ...

The justices in a 7-2 ruling overturned a lower court's decision to dismiss the lawsuit by a Valero Energy VLO.N subsidiary and fuel industry groups.

The Supreme Court reversed a lower court ruling, deeming that fuel producers have standing in a suit pertaining to the EPA's ...

The US Supreme Court issued two rulings on Wednesday that establish where challenges to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) actions should be filed, remanding one lawsuit to regional circuits and ...

The Supreme Court dealt another blow to federal environmental protections on Tuesday in a major water pollution case. In a 5–4 ruling in City and County of San Francisco v. EPA, the justices ...