EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced plans to redefine "waters of the U.S" and promised a "consequential day of ...

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 ...

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

When it rains too much in San Francisco, the city's wastewater treatment plant can get overloaded. An overloaded wastewater treatment plant means ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Tuesday that the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) rules for the city of San Francisco under the Clean Water Act on raw sewage discharge are overly vague ...

The question before the court was whether the Clean Water Act of 1972 allowed the E.P.A. to impose prohibitions on wastewater released into the Pacific Ocean and to penalize the city for violating ...

narrowing the landmark Clean Water Act in an unusual case that pitted one of the nation’s greenest cities — San Francisco — against the Environmental Protection Agency. In a 5-4 ruling ...