- cross-posted to:
- nottheonion
- cross-posted to:
- nottheonion
Summary
In a 5-4 decision, the US Supreme Court weakened the Clean Water Act by limiting the EPA’s authority to issue generic water quality standards.
The majority, led by Justice Alito, ruled that the EPA must impose specific pollutant limits instead of broad, “end result” requirements. The city of San Francisco prevailed, challenging the EPA’s narrative-based permits for sewage discharges.
Dissenters, led by Justice Barrett, argued the law authorizes stronger measures to protect water supplies.
The case marks the first significant Clean Water Act challenge since Chevron deference was overturned in 2024.
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This cornucopia of corruption is unprecedented. It seems we’re seeing all of his buyers receiving their benefits in real time.
Yes California has one Sewage Crisis. But what about Second Sewage Crisis?
A 5-4 decision that weakens water protections is a win for polluters, not the public.
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It’s not a win for the polluters. They’re polluting their own water.
“Public” means everybody, it’s not the other team that goes with “private”. It’s everybody.
Nice try, but polluters don’t see ‘everybody’—just dollar signs and disposable ecosystems.
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Its ridiculous when the courts are so clearly partisan. What is the point of the justice system anymore?
Nothing learned:
This is a completely separate issue…?
It is, however you’d think such a publicized event would have stressed the importance of clean water to anyone that heard about it. Even the people who are racist should understand why they should want their water to be clean.
I thought San Francisco were supposed to be good guys? Why are they pulling the EPA in front of the Supreme Court? Just to save some money on their infrastructure at the cost of the public?
San Francisco has been shifting conservative for a while. A bunch of tech millionaires want to turn it into a futuristic dystopia.
The city government of San Francisco is fucking broke because they built their entire budget and town around shitty tech startup open offices and nobody ever wanted that so now it all sits empty and decaying.
Should have seen what they did to their homeless as soon as they were legally allowed to. When you travel far enough, extreme Left and Right both seem to be looping around and into the anus of Authoritarianism.
Implying that “extreme left” in any way applies to establishment Democrats.
“Let them drink shit.”
- Clarence Thomas probably
The founding fathers didn’t have water treatment so you don’t get it either!
The EPA 100% has a spreadsheet showing which pollutants lead up to those “end results”. Hopefully a swath of specific limitations comes out very, very, quickly.
Something something “drain the swamp”.
The joke about Republicans letting the likes of Bronzo the Clown take a shit in their mouth if they thought a liberal would have to smell it now became very close to literally true.
“Not having to eat actual shit from our water supply is just a lot of woke bullshit!” -magamorons, probably
Why don’t we just drain the swamp right into the drinking water supplies of schools? It’s a win-win-win!
Shithole country. Literally.
Its not as if this saves money. It just shifts the expense. Purified water treatment plants are going to have to compensate for increasingly contaminated source water. I’d wager this will negatively impact nitrification. Just pollution for no societal gain. Greed, I assume.
Ugh. I think I’ve hit my limit for bad news today. Be well, all.
You’re from the UK, yes? The issue here is combined sewers; these produce overflow during periods of heavy rainfall. They’re a characteristic of older cities. You guys in the UK, with older cities, have considerably more of these than does the US, especially the western US, which are mostly newer cities built after separate sewers became the norm.
I don’t know how you’d measure public views on the matter.
kagis
These guys are UK-based and studying public opinion on the matter:
In our review, we found that CSOs in the U.K. do receive a higher level of public attention and are more heavily scrutinized than in European Union (EU) countries, while the U.S. is further ahead in terms of public awareness and stakeholder involvement.
Awww is baby whinging because the UK is better than sithole america
Let’s bring back lead paint.
Let’s bring back coal refineries in full swing.
Let’s bring back rulings against having warning labels.
Let’s just go all the fucking way in how we can truly bastardize this country even further.
Don’t forget good old asbestos!
Is America great now?
FINALLY! God it feels like I’ve been saying it forever but OUR WATER IS TOO CLEAN! Cannot tell you how much I miss sewage and dead animals in my water. Puts hair on your chest! Kids these days barely know what it’s like to get a little cholera or typhoid. By the time I was six I had e coli twice, and salmonella. Wouldn’t trade it for the world. MAGA!!
Maybe they’ll have the best dysentery? That’s not nothin.
Ask the Californian prison slaves
there’s prison slavery happening all over the country. “fun” fact, school districts are encouraged to purchase furniture made by incarcerated people, and can even hire them to do maintenance type jobs (like painting etc).
shit is already fucked.
What do you need clean water for? You can purchase it from Nestle anyway as part of your essentials subscription.
Until we find that Nestle is just bottling the same tap water at twice the price. Oops!
But I’ve reached the maximum allotment, and I wanted to bathe this week!
Come on, you’re 35, you should be dead already!
I feel happyyyy!!
Would you like to upgrade to the Essentials+ with ads plan?
I…would not? Ugh, I have to think about it
Better hurry! This discounted offer only lasts through this weekend!
If the EPA are the experts wouldn’t it make sense they should set specific requirements for water safety? What am I missing here?
You’re missing that SCOTUS has taken the mask off and is complicit in the destruction of the regulations for the benefit of their elite donors. (Yes I know they don’t campaign, yes I know what I said. Watch John Oliver talk about RV’s if you need more context.)
The repeal of chevron deference apparently
Great, so now asshole industrialists can pollute with whatever new-fangled chemicals they want, and if it’s not on the blacklist (good luck navigating the red tape to add to that list btw), they are free of liability and the public can get sick. Wonderful.
Oh look we changed the formula for Horrible Death Liquid tm by one molocule. Anyways we’ll just throw that in the reservoir behind the elementary school, what could go wrong?
