The construction grants program was phased out in 1990. Today, the Clean Water State Revolving Fund program provides low-interest loans to build and improve wastewater systems. The Path Forward, From ...

Before the Clean Water Act was passed, 240 million gallons of waste flowed into the Potomac River daily. The river was considered a severe health hazard, enough so that anyone who fell into it was ...

In Sackett v.EPA, the extreme right-wing majority of the Supreme Court ruled to pull many of the nation’s wetlands from protection under the Clean Water Act. More recently, the decision forced the ...

Now, 50 years later, we can be proud of these results, but we cannot rest on our laurels. Access to clean and safe water is a fundamental right, yet today, the Clean Water Act faces renewed legal ...

The Clean Water Act, though, has changed the face of American waters – and we’re all the better for it. The last thing we need, in the West or anywhere else, is to weaken this foundational law.

The Clean Water Act has reached its 50th anniversary. Still befuddling federal regulators is nonpoint-source pollution — a technocratic term describing pesticides, oil, fertilizers, toxins ...

Before the Clean Water Act was enacted in 1972, it was legal to dump all kinds of pollution in our lakes, ponds, rivers and streams. In Vermont, this translated into raw sewage being regularly ...

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This alert was originally published on June 3, 2025, and has been revised based on recent developments. Update: On June 30, 2025, ...

Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote for the court, ruled that the agency had gone beyond what the Clean Water Act allowed. “We hold that the two challenged provisions exceed the EPA’s authority ...

Allowing citizen enforcement has been an essential part of our nation’s environmental protection strategy, ever since the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act and other environmental laws were ...

The Supreme Court of the United States’ recent Clean Water Act decision in City of San Francisco v. EPA has sent shockwaves through the environmental community by prohibiting EPA and state ...