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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 ...
In other words, a win for San Francisco could undermine the EPA’s ability to police a broader swath of polluters. And that has given environmentalists and others following the case pause.
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.
State. Sen Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, authored SB 253, a bill signed in ... according to the EPA, ... the California Chamber of Commerce filed a lawsuit against SB 253, citing First Amendment ...
CEH was founded in 1996 by Michael Green, who previously worked for the U.S. Department of Energy. [1] The group brings litigation under a California law, the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, which was enacted as a citizens' ballot proposition and is often referred to as the state's "Prop 65" law.
In 2001, a draft report of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) laid the groundwork for tough new standards to limit public exposure to trichloroethylene. The assessment set off a fight between the EPA and the Department of Defense (DoD), the Department of Energy , and NASA , who appealed directly to the White House.
The court case, argued in US District Court in San Francisco, started in 2017. The lead plaintiff was a not-for-profit advocacy environmental advocacy organization named Food & Water Watch.
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.