EPA Tells U.S. Supreme Court Petitioner’s CWA Permit Argument Is Without Merit

(September 18, 2024, 8:56 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency filed a response brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in a dispute over narrative prohibitions in San Francisco’s National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) sewer system permit, contending that San Francisco’s categorical argument that the Clean Water Act (CWA) authorizes only limitations that fall within the statutory definition of “effluent limitation” are without merit....