Amy Coney Barrett joined the liberal justices in a dissent against Samuel Alito—and his thinly veiled policy agenda.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett said the Supreme Court reached a "puzzling" conclusion in a case on water regulations issued by the EPA.

The Supreme Court’s second-newest justice is proving herself to be a non-hack—to the increasing consternation of MAGA.

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court substantially weakened federal limitations on raw sewage discharge into nearby bodies of water. Its 5–4 decision will, in practice, free cities to dump substantially more sewage into rivers,

The U.S. Supreme Court handed down a ruling on Tuesday that strikes down some rule that allowed the Environmental Protection Agency to limit the amount of pollution discharged into America’s waterways. The ruling was 5-4, with Amy Coney Barrett joining the court’s more liberal justices in dissenting.

Barrett and Chief Justice John ... struck down rules regulating the discharge of water pollution in a decision narrowing the Clean Water Act. Jeremy Fogel, a former federal judge in California ...

On Tuesday, March 4, 2025, the Supreme Court issued an opinion in City and County of San Francisco, California v. Environmental Protection

The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that EPA cannot enforce requirements in wastewater permits that “do not spell out what a permittee must do or refrain from doing,” in a major blow to the agency’s power under the Clean Water Act.

The Supreme Court's conservative majority ruled for San Francisco in limiting the power of environmental regulators to prevent ocean discharges of polluted stormwater.

The Supreme Court's decision is the latest in which conservative justices have reined in pollution control efforts.

Barrett, in a partial dissent: "Receiving water limitations are not categorically inconsistent with the Clean Water Act. Because the Court holds otherwise, I respectfully dissent in part."