Read about five success stories since 1972 when Congress passed the Clean Water Act, with the intention to restore and maintain waterways.

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.

Researchers say holes in the clay that overlays the Memphis aquifer could have let pollutants from as early as the 1940s into ...

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 ...

The Clean Water Act prompted many states to prohibit laundry detergents containing phosphorus. Some had labeled Lake Erie “dead” as the soaps fueled algae blooms that killed fish.

President Richard Nixon vetoed the Clean Water Act in 1972. But Congress overrode him on a bipartisan vote, and the landmark law to reverse the toxic degradation of U.S. rivers, lakes and streams ...

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 ...

Opinion The Supreme Court just gutted the Clean Water Act. It could be devastating. May 25, 2023 More than 2 years ago 4 min ...

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 ...

The PERMIT Act, or House Resolution 3898, will now go to the House floor for a vote after passing the committee 34-30.

A new bill, SB-601, aims to enshrine the Clean Water Act of 1972 into California law, ensuring state water pollution laws cover the same waterways—wetlands, creeks, streams, rivers, and lakes ...