New panel chair eyes easing Clean Water Act permitting. By Amelia Davidson | 02/12/2025 06:36 AM EST . Democrats during a hearing raised questions on the impacts of President Donald Trump’s ...

The United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (“Fifth Circuit”) addressed in a December 24th, 2024 Opinion a challenge to 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 ...

The Clean Water Act directs the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate this discharge to ensure that it does not pose a threat to human health or ecosystems.

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 ...

In relevant part, Section 1311(b)(1)(C) gives the NPDES permitting authority the ability to establish “any more stringent limitation, including those necessary to meet water quality standards ...

A new Food & Water Watch report, also released today, outlines the human impact of unregulated factory farm water pollution on public health, recreation and water bills. The Clean Water for Iowa Act ...

HAMMOND — Government lawyers allege an oil re-refinery plant with a location in East Chicago violated the Clean Water Act after they discharged wastewater with excessive pollutants into the city ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has initiated an administrative order on consent with Radius Recycling Inc. in response to alleged Clean Water Act violations at the company's metal ...

A new law would get the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources more actively involved in regulating Vermont farms to meet federal water quality requirements, but critics say it doesn’t go far enough.