The Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), signed ... Celebrating 50 years of progress, the EPA continues working with partners to achieve the vision of clean, safe drinking water for all Americans.

It’s a major potential pivot for the half-century-old Clean Water Act, a law prized by environmentalists and grassroots ...

The Clean Water Act made it illegal to pollute a “water of the United States” without a permit, but the parameters of those terms have been at the center of legal wrangling over the years. The current ...

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that sewage plants and other industries cannot avoid environmental requirements under landmark clean-water protections when they send dirty water on an indirect route.

The agencies proposed restoring longstanding protections that had been eliminated in 2020 — restoring protections for more than half of America’s wetlands, along with many rivers and streams, under ...

In America, that right is enshrined in the Clean Water Act of 1972, which defines how ... public health protections—and won them. Nearly 50 years later we need to rise up again.

After allowing the facility to operate without a permit for 20 years, Florida has also agreed to fund independent monitoring of its impacts on Tampa Bay’s water quality. “A strong, enforceable Clean ...

The Court in Sackett also established a clear definition of “waters of the U.S.” based on the language and intent of Congress in the Clean Water Act. This Supreme Court decision resolves years of ...

A New Jersey-based company pleaded guilty Friday in Bridgeport to a felony violation of the Clean Water Act after knowingly ... federal probation for three years and must pay a $500,000 federal ...