March 7, 2025 – Bloomberg Law recently interviewed Stephen O’Day on the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in City and County of San Francisco v. EPA, which shifts more regulatory responsibility onto the EPA while the agency faces workforce cuts. O’Day stated, “Those amorphous things will be allowed to go on until there is a water quality standard or an effluent limit for those kinds of discharges. Microplastics are another where there aren’t any standards now. Water quality can be affected because the backstop to the specific effluent limits is being removed.”

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