The United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (“Fifth Circuit”) addressed in a December 24th, 2024 Opinion a challenge to a ...

Supreme Court declines to hear a case that challenged the scope of certain citizen lawsuits under the Clean Water Act. ● Bureau of Reclamation’s internal watchdog flags fraud and waste risk in drought ...

President Donald Trump, Republicans, and conservatives at the Supreme Court are escalating a decades-long assault on clean water protections. Through deregulations and cuts at the Environmental ...

The Clean Water Act directs the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate this discharge to ensure that it does not pose a threat to human health or ecosystems.

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 ...

Agribusiness giant ADM violated federal regulations, a federal permit and the Safe Drinking Water Act earlier this year when a monitoring well at its carbon sequestration site in Decatur leaked ...

US Clean Water Act leaves about 55% of water flowing out of rivers vulnerable to pollution SCOTUS ruling last year weakened the Clean Water Act, now a research team illustrates how this decision ...

A recent Supreme Court decision stripped Marylanders of the right to enforce the Clean Water Act with respect to certain waterways.

While Clean Water Act compliance programs must be custom-tailored to companies’ specific environmental risks and operations, there are some overarching considerations involved.

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 ...