Though federal Clean Water Act rules don’t apply (and haven’t ever applied) to most ditches, they have protected the water ...

Proposed changes to the federal definition of “waters of the United States” could strip protections from millions of wetlands.

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IER will continue to engage constructively in this process, with the goal of ensuring that federal environmental regulation ...

Despite the new “waters of the U.S.” definition, the Clean Water Act’s regulatory reach will likely continue generating legal controversy, according to an agricultural law expert. Two years after the ...

The objection was drafted by Prairie Rivers Network. WNIJ’s Jess Savage sat down with Director of Water Policy Robert ...

Nov. 17 (UPI) --The Trump administration proposed changing the definition of wetlands Monday to limit which bodies of water are protected from pollution under the Clean Water Act. The administration's ...

Significantly reduced federal jurisdiction: The proposed rule will remove federal protection from many tributaries and wetlands, particularly in arid western states. Interstate waters lose automatic ...

Republicans praised the Trump administration’s draft rewrite of a key Clean Water Act regulation, calling it a win for farmers, businesses, homebuilders and landowners who would see reduced permitting ...

The Trump administration's EPA is moving to restrict federal definitions of protected waterways, eliminating protections for seasonal and temporary water systems like wetlands, streams, and ditches, ...

The Association of Clean Water Administrators (“ACWA”) submitted May 15th comments to the Untied States Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ( collectively, “EPA”) ...