San Francisco Tells High Court Terms Of Its NPDES Permit Don’t Comply With CWA

(July 22, 2024, 11:16 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a merits brief filed in the U.S. Supreme Court on July 19, San Francisco argues that the Environmental Protection Agency failed to comply with the Clean Water Act (CWA) by including two narrative prohibitions in the city’s National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) sewer system permit because the prohibitions impose conditions on the quality of receiving waters....