Supreme Court leans toward expanding Clean Water Act to protect oceans from wastewater
by David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times
Nov 06, 2019
2 minutes
WASHINGTON - Supreme Court justices, both conservative and liberal, appeared skeptical Wednesday of a Trump administration argument that the federal Clean Water Act should not apply to sewage plant wastewater that flows into the ground and eventually seeps into federally protected waters, such as rivers or oceans.
The case from Hawaii has emerged as a major
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