On this day 50 years ago, Congress passed the Clean Water Act. This cornerstone environmental law of the 20th century aimed to eliminate all polluting discharges into our nation’s waterways. For many ...

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 ...

Before the Clean Water Act was passed, 240 million gallons of waste flowed into the Potomac River daily. The river was considered a severe health hazard, enough so that anyone who fell into it was ...

Before the Clean Water Act was enacted in 1972, it was legal to dump all kinds of pollution in our lakes, ponds, rivers and streams. In Vermont, this translated into raw sewage being regularly ...

Fifty years ago this week the Clean Water Act was enacted. The Vermont Natural Resources Council held a webinar on Wednesday to review the impact of what was then a landmark law.

More than 50 years ago, the Federal Clean Water Act (CWA or Act) was enacted by Congress to protect the quality of the Nation’s waters. The scope of that protection has been evolving ever since.

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 ...

Two years prior, the Clean Water Act was enacted. The monumental law regulated discharges into waterways, such as the Delaware River, which was once described as a "stinky, ugly mess." ...