News

The United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (“Fifth Circuit”) addressed in a December 24th, 2024 Opinion a challenge to a ...
Access to clean and safe water is a fundamental right — yet the Clean Water Act faces renewed challenges.
Today, as the Clean Water Act turns 50, we’re looking back at how we got here and ahead toward how we'll protect our water.
The Clean Water Act, passed 51 years ago today, is one of our country’s bedrock environmental laws. By cracking down on pollution discharges into rivers, lakes, streams, and wetlands, it has ...
Read about five success stories since 1972 when Congress passed the Clean Water Act, with the intention to restore and maintain waterways.
The Supreme Court narrowed the protections of the Clean Water Act in an opinion Thursday, finding the law only covered wetlands and other bodies of water that directly connect to federal waters ...
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 ...
50 years after the Clean Water Act became law, we should appreciate the progress we have made, while at the same time remain wide-eyed about the threats and challenges before us, and those we ...
The EPA's power to enforce the Clean Water Act could be curtailed in a case to be considered by the Supreme Court when it convenes Monday.
Half a century after Congress adopted the Clean Water Act, the nation's waterways remain at risk and are facing new challenges.
In a major win for industry and developers, the Supreme Court is significantly limiting the number and type of U.S. waterways that get federal protection.
Robert Redford: Last thing we need is to put Clean Water Act on trial at the Supreme Court. Protect wetlands and streams that feed our drinking water.