Clean water faces threats on so many fronts. A destructive Supreme Court ruling on the Clean Water Act makes action more urgent than ever. Clean water faces threats on so many fronts. A destructive ...

Environmental groups warn the PERMIT Act could weaken Clean Water Act protections, limit oversight, and fast-track projects ...

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 held that ...

Today the House voted largely along party lines to pass the PERMIT Act. The legislation would weaken the Clean Water Act, one ...

Despite the new “waters of the U.S.” definition, the Clean Water Act’s regulatory reach will likely continue generating legal controversy, according to an agricultural law expert. Two years after the ...

The Trump administration is angling to use a bedrock water law to build more natural gas pipelines across the United States. It’s a major potential pivot for the half-century-old Clean Water Act, a ...

Before Congress passed the Clean Water Act in 1972, U.S. factories and cities could pipe their pollution directly into waterways. Rivers, including the Potomac in Washington, smelled of raw sewage and ...

The Environmental Protection Agency announced changes to the Clean Water Act that sportsmen’s organizations say could set us back 50 years to a time when rivers lit on fire and fish went belly up.

The federal government has narrowed the “waters of the U.S.” definition, potentially triggering a new legal battle over whether it’s scaled back Clean Water Act enforcement too far, experts say. Legal ...

Republicans praised the Trump administration’s draft rewrite of a key Clean Water Act regulation, calling it a win for farmers, businesses, homebuilders and landowners who would see reduced permitting ...

The proposal would sharply narrow which wetlands and streams are protected. The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed redefining key words in the Clean Water Act that would limit protections ...