The Clean Water Act gives the EPA and Army Corps of Engineers jurisdiction over “navigable waters,” which are defined as “waters of the United States” (WOTUS). Nearly any activity that occurs within a ...

A rule granting federal authority over many small bodies of water was slated to be rescinded this week after two years of red tape and court hearings. Local farmers and officials worried the ...

Farmers have worried this past year that increased federal jurisdiction of navigable waters would go too far. The Environmental Protection Agency says a recent ruling on what navigable waters it ...

While it could have rested on the traditionally familiar definition of “navigable waters ... define them as “the waters of the United States, including the territorial seas” — WOTUS ...

Why was the Gulf of Mexico given its name and can Trump change it? - The president says he wants the body of water to be ...

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (“SpaceX”) entered into a January 15th ...

Since 2010, vessel traffic in US waters has increased by 10.5%, reaching an astounding 2.3 billion tons of cargo annually. The nation’s 25,000 miles of navigable waterways also support travel ...

A "No Discharge Zone (NDZ) " or area is a designated body of water that prohibits the discharge of treated and untreated boat sewage. Federal Law prohibits the discharge of untreated sewage from ...

The US and Mexico are members of the International Hydrographic Organisation (IHO), which oversees the uniform charting and naming of the world’s seas, oceans, and navigable waters. In practice ...