The Chicago Trump International Hotel and Tower has agreed to pay a $4.8 million settlement for environmental violations to ...

Under a recent court ruling, part of an environmental lawsuit over Barnstable’s Hyannis sewage plant will proceed, raising ...

The following commentary is by Brian Shupe, executive director of the Vermont Natural Resources Council. This month, the federal Clean Water Act turned 50. (Click here for a timeline of 50 years ...

In Sackett v.EPA, the extreme right-wing majority of the Supreme Court ruled to pull many of the nation’s wetlands from protection under the Clean Water Act. More recently, the decision forced the ...

The construction grants program was phased out in 1990. Today, the Clean Water State Revolving Fund program provides low-interest loans to build and improve wastewater systems. The Path Forward, From ...

Before the Clean Water Act was passed, 240 million gallons of waste flowed into the Potomac River daily. The river was considered a severe health hazard, enough so that anyone who fell into it was ...

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The backbone of the nation’s current water quality regulations dates back to the early 1970s with the passage of laws like the Safe Drinking Water Act and the Clean Water Act. In today’s deregulatory ...

At issue in the case is how the Clean Water Act—and, though it, the EPA—regulates offshore water pollution. The question is particularly important for San Francisco.

President Richard Nixon vetoed the Clean Water Act in 1972. But Congress overrode him on a bipartisan vote, and the landmark law to reverse the toxic degradation of U.S. rivers, lakes and streams ...

The 1972 Clean Water Act expanded federal protections for the nation’s waterways, allowing the government to regulate what corporations discharge into them, including pollutants.. That landmark ...

ROTT: What we know today better than we did in 1972, when the Clean Water Act was written, is that waterways are connected not just in ways that we can see, but also in ways that we can't, and ...