The Clean Water Act is a United States federal statute enacted in 1972 to reduce levels of toxic substances in the nation's water supply and to prevent high levels of new contamination.

To the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: Thank you for the opportunity to provide comments on the notice of proposed rulemaking for proposed changes to the ...

The Clean Water Act gives the EPA and Army Corps of Engineers jurisdiction over “navigable waters,” which are defined as “waters of the United States” (WOTUS). Nearly any activity that occurs within a ...

Pawlenty recognized in 2003, a significant rollback in federal Clean Water Act jurisdiction “could lead to greater loss and degradation of our state’s and the nation’s waters and increased ...