If made into law, it would clarify the definition of state waters and establish stronger protections for long-term water treatment in mining operations.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin on Wednesday announced nearly three dozen deregulatory moves that he ...

Environmental Protection Agency head Lee Zeldin said the agency has launched "the biggest deregulatory action in U.S. history ...

The Trump administration on Wednesday announced it will reconsider the reach of the nation's bedrock clean water law and ...

The Clean Water Act’s ambiguous definition of "waters of the United States" led to a restrictive U.S. Supreme Court ...

OpEd: A House committee amendment gives the appearance of reducing the damage that will be done by SB 89, yet still fails to protect almost all rural Kentucky’s households and farms that rely on ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has signaled that it could narrow which set of waters receive protections under the Clean Water Act. The law requires the EPA to protect so-called “waters ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday announced that it will narrow the definition of waters that can be ...

Senate Bill 89 would limit the authority of the Kentucky Division of Water at the request of the coal industry.

This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center. It is part two in a four-part series. Read part one here. President Trump and Texas lawmakers are pushing to loosen the ...

With its opinion in San Francisco v. EPA, the U.S. Supreme Court has again acted to "right" the implementation of the federal Clean Water Act ...