The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed limits to protected waters under a new interpretation of the Clean Water Act ...

On November 20, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of the Army published their proposed ...

The EPA is moving to narrow the definitions of protected waterways under the Clean Water Act, opening many waterways to ...

The EPA has announced changes to the Clean Water Act that will make streams and wetlands vulnerable to pollution across the ...

The Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposed an amendment to the Clean Water Act that would make it so wetlands and streams that are seasonal or flow ...

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The Supreme Court dealt another blow to federal environmental protections on Tuesday in a major water pollution case. In a 5–4 ruling in City and County of San Francisco v. EPA, the justices held that ...

Despite stalled climate, clean energy bills, Congress has acted in the past. July 2, 2010— -- Despite the gushing nudge provided by the Gulf oil spill, the Waxman-Markey climate bill passed last ...

The Trump administration is angling to use a bedrock water law to build more natural gas pipelines across the United States. It’s a major potential pivot for the half-century-old Clean Water Act, a ...

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin warned states and tribes Thursday not to “leverage” the Clean Water Act to block or impede energy projects approved by the Trump administration. The agency issued a ...