Now, 50 years later, we can be proud of these results, but we cannot rest on our laurels. Access to clean and safe water is a fundamental right, yet today, the Clean Water Act faces renewed legal ...

Add to Calendar: Add to Calendar: 2022-09-21 16:30:00 2022-09-21 17:30:00 Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency and the Future of Clean Water Act Jurisdiction Event Description The Clean Water ...

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 ...

A sign calling for protection of the Clean Water Act hung outside the Supreme Court Building as the court heard arguments in Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency. (Tom Williams / CQ-Roll ...

The Clean Water Act isn’t the only reason New York Harbor looks the way it does today, of course. Other types of civic action have helped, and of course will continue whatever the Supreme Court ...

With the Los Angeles skyline behind it, runoff flows down the Los Angeles River through Vernon on Feb. 6, 2024. A new bill, SB-601, aims to enshrine the Clean Water Act of 1972 into California law ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has signaled that it could narrow which set of waters receive protections under the Clean Water Act. The law requires the EPA to protect so-called ...

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.

That is what the Clean Water Act requires of EPA and the States. Moving away from the dictionary, the Court also reviewed the history of water pollution legislation.

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 ...

Access to clean water is a fundamental human right and yet 48 percent of households on Native American reservations do not have clean water and adequate sanitation. 2 The Tribal Access to Clean Water ...