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 ...

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin on Wednesday announced nearly three dozen deregulatory moves that he ...

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 ...

streams rivers and lakes – that applied to the federal Clean Water Act as recently as the early years of Joe Biden’s presidency. Farmers and ranchers, among others, might fight it, in part ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has further eroded the power of the Environmental Protection Agency and state governments to safeguard water quality under the Clean Water Act. In Tuesday’s 5-4 ruling ...

Democrats during a hearing raised questions on the impacts of President Donald Trump’s spending freeze on water infrastructure. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Republicans ...

This week’s SCOTUS opinion in City and County of San Francisco v Environmental Protection Agency basically rewrote the Clean Water Act to achieve that result. In this week’s bonus episode for ...

Handing down a 5-4 decision, the court narrowed the Clean Water Act, America’s landmark water pollution law, and ruled that the EPA set requirements too broadly in issuing permits for the city ...

Instead, the ruling said, the Clean Water Act of 1972 – a foundational law that sets water pollution rules around the country – requires that fines or punishments imposed on a polluter must be ...