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City and County of San Francisco v. Environmental Protection Agency is a pending United States Supreme Court case about whether the Clean Water Act allows the Environmental Protection Agency (or an authorized state) to impose generic prohibitions in National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permits that subject permit-holders to enforcement for violating water quality standards without ...
EPA: 23-1067 23-1068: Whether a final action by EPA taken pursuant to its Clean Air Act authority with respect to a single state or region may be challenged only in the D.C. Circuit because EPA published the action in the same Federal Register notice as actions affecting other states or regions and claimed to use a consistent analysis for all ...
In siding with the EPA in the San Francisco case last year, the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals relied in part on that precedent. The Clean Water Act, enacted in 1972, allows the EPA to set clear ...
Lawyers for San Francisco told the court it was 'unfair and unworkable' to hold the city potentially liable for huge fines because of polluted water along Pacific beaches near the city.
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA / ˈ s iː. k w ə /) is a California statute passed in 1970 and signed in to law by then-governor Ronald Reagan, [1] [2] shortly after the United States federal government passed the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), to institute a statewide policy of environmental protection.
The activists and Indigenous leaders, who filed their complaint with the EPA in December, have demanded that the state review and update the water quality plan for the Delta and San Francisco Bay.
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In 2019, the Supreme Court of the Netherlands confirmed that the government must cut carbon dioxide emissions, as climate change threatens human health. [1]Climate change litigation, also known as climate litigation, is an emerging body of environmental law using legal practice to set case law precedent to further climate change mitigation efforts from public institutions, such as governments ...