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San Francisco is suing the EPA over how specific water pollution permits should be

  • Written by Robin Kundis Craig, Professor of Law, University of Kansas
imageBaker Beach and other San Francisco city beaches are sometimes closed for swimming due to sewage discharges.Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images

The U.S. Supreme Court will test how flexible the EPA and states can be in regulating water pollution under the Clean Water Act when it hears oral argument in City and County of San Francisco v....

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