A federal court shouldn’t wait on an upcoming US Supreme Court decision and should continue proceedings in a case alleging two Bay Area cities illegally dumped sewage into federal waters, an environmental group urged.
San Francisco Baykeeper told the the US District Court for the Northern District of California on Thursday that the high court’s decision in City and County of San Francisco v. EPA won’t affect the cities’ liability for alleged Clean Water Act permit violations, and will allow them to postpone fixing their ongoing pollution.
The group sued Sunnyvale and Mountain View, Calif., in 2020, claiming they released ...
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