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A coalition of seven Utah counties and an infrastructure investment group have sought to construct an 88-mile (142-km) ...
The justices’ regular caseload was overshadowed by requests from the president to allow some of his most controversial ...
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that district courts can’t issue universal injunctions, ending an increasingly common way for lower-court judges to block polices nationally. The 6-3 decision on June 27, ...
A sharp exchange during U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments Monday on the future of no-cost preventive care under the Affordable Care Act took a humorous turn when Justice Samuel Alito made a self ...
The Supreme Court of the United States’ recent Clean Water Act decision in City of San Francisco v. EPA has sent shockwaves through the environmental community by prohibiting EPA and state ...
Justice Alito delivered the majority opinion 6 and was joined by Justices Roberts, Thomas, Kavanaugh, and Gorsuch with respect to Part III (5-4) and all of the Justices except Justice Gorsuch with ...
Justice Alito, writing for five Justices, then agreed with the city that the Clean Water Act did not authorize the EPA's end-result limitations—i.e., the permit provisions mandating that ...
The Trump administration on Wednesday announced it will reconsider the reach of the nation’s bedrock clean water law and likely further limit the wetlands it covers.
For decades, environmental interests and left-leaning policymakers have fought right-leaning industry and agricultural interests in federal court over the Clean Water Act's power.
The 5-4 ruling found that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency permits were too vague in their interpretation of the Clean Water Act.