Environmental groups and California water regulators have told the U.S. Supreme Court that San Francisco’s challenge to rules on offshore pollution, which the court will hear next month, contradicts decades of clean-water rules and could harm the waters and those who use them.
The court agreed in May to hear the city’s appeal of a ruling that said it was failing to protect swimmers and bathers from discharges of sewage into the Pacific Ocean. The ruling, due by next June, will determine whether local governments can be penalized for allowing pollution near their shores, or whether — as San Francisco and its allies contend — the law requires them only to limit contaminants to levels set in advance, like specific discharges per million parts of water.
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