EPA, challenges a definition at the heart of the Clean Water Act, a landmark 1972 law that prevents the discharge of hazardous substances – from oil and chemicals to rock and sand – into the ...

With a narrower definition of WOTUS in place after Sackett, the reduced scope of the Clean Water Act’s jurisdiction will impact renewable energy development in several ways.

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 meantime.

The US Supreme Court ruled May 25 that regulatory agencies must stop trying to extend the reach of their authority under the Clean Water Act beyond federal waters and adjoining wetlands.

Like I said at the beginning of the month, most of us have seen this sad movie before so it is no surprise that EPA's eighth attempt to define the reach of the Federal Clean Water Act will be the ...

BISMARCK, N.D. (CN) — A federal judge in North Dakota on Wednesday paused a new Biden administration rule which sought to redefine what constitutes a waterway under the Clean Water Act. West Virginia ...

The ever-changing definition can make it difficult for farmers to know whether their land falls under the Clean Water Act, said Missouri Farm Bureau president Garrett Hawkins.

Alito protested that this definition of “limitation”—the one used by a regular speaker of English—conflicts with the legislative history of the Clean Water Act as well as its “broader ...

The 5-4 decision said the Clean Water Act applies only to waters that have a “continuous surface connection to” other bodies of water. The new definition, ...

The Environmental Protection Agency will review the definition of “waters of the United States,” pledging to follow a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that shortened the reach of the Clean Water Act.