This month, the federal Clean Water Act turned 50. (Click here for a timeline of 50 years in Vermont history under the Clean Water Act.) ...

The Clean Water Act has reached its 50th anniversary. Still befuddling federal regulators is nonpoint-source pollution — a technocratic term describing pesticides, oil, fertilizers, toxins ...

Opinion; A Cleveland water history through beer labels as the Clean Water Act turns 50: Jeff Opperman. Published: ; Oct. 23, 2022, 5:14 a.m.

On June 1, 2022, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a proposed rule that would modify its requirements for water quality certification under Clean Water Act (CWA) Section 401 ...

The 1972 federal Clean Water Act (CWA) protects the physical, ... The Court slashed federal wetlands protections, leaving them at their weakest in the act’s history.

Alito protested that this definition of “limitation”—the one used by a regular speaker of English—conflicts with the legislative history of the Clean Water Act as well as its “broader ...

This is exactly what Scalia wanted to accomplish in 2006 when the Clean Water Act was last before the court. He managed to cobble together three other votes to gut the law but fell one justice short.

Before Congress passed the Clean Water Act in 1972, U.S. factories and cities could pipe their pollution directly into waterways. Rivers, including the Potomac in Washington, smelled of raw sewage ...

Until the spring of 2024, the city had been operating off a Clean Water Act-related permit with regulations that were about 20 years old. But recently the city was able to update its permit, which ...