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Government,
Environmental & Energy,
Administrative/Regulatory

Sep. 30, 2024

SF City Attorney says vague EPA rules could cost billions

The city has filed its reply brief in a case challenging the EPA's ability to impose generic prohibitions on sewerage overflows, set to go before U.S. Supreme Court justices next month.

San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu

In a brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court, the City and County of San Francisco accused the Environmental Protection Agency of failing to clarify the Clean Water Act's ambiguous sewage overflow limits, which it claims leaves cities in regulatory limbo. The local government argued that the EPA has effectively &quo...

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