EPA Defends Right To Set ‘Narrative’ NPDES Limits Before Supreme Court

EPA is urging the Supreme Court to reject San Francisco’s bid to bar the agency from setting narrative limits in Clean Water Act (CWA) permits, pushing back on petitioners’ claim that the agency only has authority to set technology-based “effluent” limitations, and that the statutory text, history, and high court precedent affirm that position. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar filed an Aug. 26 response brief on behalf of EPA to the Supreme Court in the suit City and County of San...