The Supreme Court appeared split Wednesday on a challenge from the city of San Francisco to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over federal wastewater rules. In its lawsuit against the

Lawyers for San Francisco told the court it was "unfair and unworkable" to hold the city potentially liable for huge fines because of polluted water along Pacific beaches near the

When the Supreme Court takes up an important environmental appeal Wednesday from the City of San Francisco, the justices will be asked to settle a dispute that at least some city leaders are desperately hoping to lose.

Liberal Supreme Court justices on Wednesday strongly criticized San Francisco‘s challenge to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency‘s authority to set generic limitations for wastewater discharges under the Clean Water Act.

The court’s conservative justices grilled EPA over requirements included in a permit for the city’s wastewater treatment plant.

One of the nation’s most liberal enclaves ran into pushback from the liberal wing of the Supreme Court on Wednesday as San Francisco battled the EPA over how the city’s wastewater spills into the Pacific Ocean.