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Supreme Court Leaves Users Disgusted After Rolling Back Clean Water Act's Raw Sewage Discharge Limitations: 'Poop Is Back On the Menu'
The US Supreme Court weakened restrictions on the discharge of raw sewage into the nation's water supplies in a 5-4 decision to roll back key provisions of the 1972 Clean Water Act (CWA ...
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Supreme Court Rules the Clean Water Act Doesn’t Actually Require That Water Be Clean
The Clean Water Act directs the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate this discharge to ensure that it does not pose a threat to human health or ecosystems. Specifically, the EPA may issue ...
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Supreme Court strikes down EPA rules on discharge of water pollution
The Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down rules regulating the discharge of water pollution, narrowing the landmark Clean Water Act in ... “I guess they haven’t heard that Trump is gutting ...
Los Angeles Times2y
50 years later, the Clean Water Act is under assault
The federal Clean Water Act has essentially the same goal as California’s Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act: to regulate the discharge of ... We can’t wait another 50 years before ...
The Hill2mon
Supreme Court sides with San Francisco on EPA water discharge rules
The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Tuesday that the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) rules for the city of San Francisco under the Clean Water Act on raw sewage discharge are overly vague ...
Tahoe Daily Tribune.com2mon
Federal ruling on Clean Water Quality Act won’t change STPUD practices
For example, because of the Porter-Cologne Act of 1969, they are required to pump recycled wastewater out of the Basin so that it doesn’t pollute the water system of Lake Tahoe. Standards for ...