SF Politics Supreme Court Rules That Environmental Impact Reports Must Focus on Project at Hand A unanimous Supreme Court, with one justice recused, ruled Thursday that the 1970 environmental law often used to stymie or slow down infrastructure and housing development does not require review documents that take into account secondary and tertiary effects of a project on other businesses.
SF News Supreme Court Rules In Favor of San Francisco In EPA Lawsuit Over Sewer Discharge San Francisco won out and had some strange bedfellows supporting it in a lawsuit that reached the Supreme Court last year about the Environmental Protection Agency's power to regulate ocean water standards.
SF News San Francisco Argues In Supreme Court Lawsuit That It Isn't Discharging That Much Untreated Waste Into Ocean San Francisco city leaders may, yet again, be looking to the conservative-majority Supreme Court to do their bidding, in this case pushing back on the Environmental Protection Agency when it comes to wastewater and storm discharge into the Pacific Ocean.
SF News Is Your Dog Worse For The Environment Than Driving A Car? A hyper-conscious environmental sort from Missoula recently wrote in to the Sierra Club to settle a debate he was having about the impact of pets on the environment. He apparently has a killjoy