Amy Coney Barrett joined the liberal justices in a dissent against Samuel Alito—and his thinly veiled policy agenda.

An environmental lawyer who wrote an amicus brief in San Francisco v. EPA believes a criticized ruling actually means tougher ...

Northwestern Pritzker School of Law’s Robert Weinstock and Alexa Longstaff say there are shortcomings to the Supreme Court ...

The U.S. Supreme Court sided with San Francisco on Tuesday in a ruling that narrows the Clean Water Act. The case pitted a ...

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court substantially weakened federal limitations on raw sewage discharge into nearby bodies of water.

San Francisco argued that Clean Water Act permits should function like recipes that restrict specific ingredients in a dish, ...

The dissent, authored by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, suggests that the legal theory of five-vote majority decision was largely of the Court’s own making and contends that its narrow interpretation of ...

In a narrow 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court ruled to limit the EPA's authority to issue broad water pollution permits under ...

Americans are getting antsy about the possibility of poop in the drinking water thanks to a new interpretation of the Clean ...

The company was found liable for violating the Clean Water Act after dumping a pollutant in a Cheshire brook in 2019 that ...

The justices ruled that the agency cannot impose generic prohibitions against violating water quality standards.

The 5-to-4 decision is the latest setback for the agency and could have sweeping implications for curtailing water pollution ...