April 05, 2021
Attorneys representing environmental groups want roughly $850,000 in attorney fees and costs for work that led to a federal judge tossing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's finding that salt ponds near San Francisco Bay are not covered by the Clean Water Act.
October 06, 2020
A California federal judge tossed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's finding that salt ponds near San Francisco Bay are not covered by the Clean Water Act, instructing the agency to reconsider the issue and pointing toward a prior appeals court decision that called for regulation.
March 13, 2020
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has told a federal court that 1,300 acres of salt ponds near San Francisco Bay aren't covered under the Clean Water Act because they have been developed and that the agency doesn't need to issue federal permits for building on the area.
September 24, 2019
California on Tuesday challenged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's determination that about 1,300 acres of salt ponds near San Francisco Bay, which developers have eyed for housing construction, are beyond the reach of the Clean Water Act.