The Trump administration on Wednesday announced it will reconsider the reach of the nation’s bedrock clean water law and ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has signaled it could narrow which set of waters receive protections under the Clean Water Act — and will narrow protections for wetlands in the ...

Northwestern Pritzker School of Law’s Robert Weinstock and Alexa Longstaff say there are shortcomings to the Supreme Court ...

Environmental Protection Agency head Lee Zeldin said the agency has launched "the biggest deregulatory action in U.S. history ...

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court substantially weakened federal limitations on raw sewage discharge into nearby bodies of water.

The U.S. Supreme Court last week, in a 5-4 decision, held that discharge permit “end-result” requirements—those that make a ...

The Trump administration is rolling back several major climate policies, including two rules that target planet-warming ...

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 ...

Under the Clean Water Act, Congress gives states authority to ... In a separate legal action, the federal government and the state of California are suing San Francisco for discharging more ...

Environmental Protection Agency to review a key 2009 finding by the agency that greenhouse gases pose a risk to Americans.

An environmental lawyer who wrote an amicus brief in San Francisco v. EPA believes a criticized ruling actually means tougher ...