Clean water faces threats on so many fronts. A destructive Supreme Court ruling on the Clean Water Act makes action more urgent than ever. Clean water faces threats on so many fronts. A destructive ...

The National Agricultural Aviation Association (“NAAA”) submitted October 9th comments addressing the United States Environmental Protection ...

A bill being pushed through Congress could significantly alter how the Clean Water Act is implemented. Environmental groups warn that the PERMIT Act – passed on Dec. 10 in the House largely along ...

Growing up just outside of Cleveland, Ohio, my siblings and cousins and I spent our summers swimming in Lake Erie. The water looked clear enough, and though I remember hearing about the invasion of ...

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 ...

The Supreme Court ruled in 2023 that rivers that only flow in response to weather events—called ephemeral streams—do not fall under the protection of the Clean Water Act. Research published in the ...

Earlier in 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court stripped federal oversight from millions of acres of wetlands long protected under the Clean Water Act. Now, erecting safeguards to ensure those waters are not ...

The Clean Water Act is the primary federal law protecting the quality of the U.S. surface waters, including lakes, rivers, and coastal wetlands. The legislation was enacted in 1972 after being vetoed ...

The Clean Water Act (CWA) was enacted in 1972. Since then, EPA, states, and municipalities have made noteworthy progress on protecting our waters through implementing the CWA. In the years since its ...