This month, the federal Clean Water Act turned 50. (Click here for a timeline of 50 years in Vermont history under the Clean Water Act.) ...

Opinion; A Cleveland water history through beer labels as the Clean Water Act turns 50: Jeff Opperman. Published: ; Oct. 23, 2022, 5:14 a.m.

What is clear, however, is that modern courts will hold EPA to a strict interpretation of the Clean Water Act. City and Cty. of San Francisco v. E.P.A. , 604 U.S. ----, 145 S.Ct. 704 (March 4 ...

The 1972 federal Clean Water Act (CWA) protects the physical, ... The Court slashed federal wetlands protections, leaving them at their weakest in the act’s history.

Alito protested that this definition of “limitation”—the one used by a regular speaker of English—conflicts with the legislative history of the Clean Water Act as well as its “broader ...

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 ...

This is exactly what Scalia wanted to accomplish in 2006 when the Clean Water Act was last before the court. He managed to cobble together three other votes to gut the law but fell one justice short.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced efforts to redefine which waters count as a “water of the U.S.” under the 1972 Clean Water Act. Kayla Bartkowski/AFP via Getty Images ...

Until the spring of 2024, the city had been operating off a Clean Water Act-related permit with regulations that were about 20 years old. But recently the city was able to update its permit, which ...