Does the Clean Water Act cover tributaries and wetlands, ... Does the 1972 Clean Water Act cover tributaries and wetlands? Editorial Board roundtable. Updated: Jun. 12, 2014, 7:14 p.m.

Passed in 1972 and amended in 1977 and 1987, the Clean Water Act was originally known as the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. The Clean Water Act is administered by the U.S. Environmental ...

The Clean Water Act protects the quality of U.S. surface waters and has gone through several changes since it was first signed into law in 1972.

Lifelong Cleveland resident Steve Gove recalls when the Cuyahoga River symbolized shame — fetid, lifeless, notorious for catching fire when sparks from overhead rail cars ignited the oil-slicked ...

President Richard Nixon vetoed the Clean Water Act in 1972. But Congress overrode him on a bipartisan vote, and the landmark law to reverse the toxic degradation of U.S. rivers, lakes and streams ...

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 ...

The three played key roles in drafting the Clean Water Act, which was enacted in 1972 and turned 50 on Tuesday. Tom Jorling/ Earth Institute Columbia University .

The federal Clean Water Act of 1972 was passed with the goal of making all U.S. waterways fishable and swimmable within a ...

The Clean Water Act, passed in 1972, did just that. It laid out a regulatory framework that requires all discharging “point sources” — like factories and wastewater treatment plants — to follow ...

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 ...

Researchers say holes in the clay that overlays the Memphis aquifer could have let pollutants from as early as the 1940s into ...