San Francisco triumphs in a Supreme Court case against the EPA concerning wastewater discharge into the bay. The court sided with the city, which argues that the EPA's End Results Requirements inaccurately attributed pollution accountability. City Attorney David Chiu emphasized the city’s adherence to the Water Pollution Control Act and the expensive burden the EPA's demands would have imposed on residents. With strict guidelines in place, San Francisco’s water quality is monitored, showing mostly compliance, although some areas reported elevated bacteria levels. This ruling may set a precedent for similar cases across California.
The EPA had a practice of what is known as End Results Requirements, or in other words, they would measure the overall pollution in the ocean or the bay, which could have been caused by numerous sources, not us, and try to hold us accountable for that.
Our city has spent billions of dollars to ensure that our waters are clean, that we are not polluting into the bay or into the ocean.
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