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Supreme Court sides with San Francisco, requiring EPA to set specific targets in water pollution permits

  • Written by Robin Kundis Craig, Professor of Law, University of Kansas
imageSwimmers gather at San Francisco's Ocean Beach for a Polar Plunge to start the new year, Jan. 1, 2025.Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images

The U.S. Supreme Court has limited how flexible the Environmental Protection Agency and states can be in regulating water pollution under the Clean Water Act in a ruling issued March 4, 2025. However, the...

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