Despite the new “waters of the U.S.” definition, the Clean Water Act’s regulatory reach will likely continue generating legal controversy, according to an agricultural law expert. Two years after the ...

The long-term health of the ocean off the coast of Southern California, and the health of the region’s freshwater streams and rivers and lakes, soon could hinge on the Trump administration’s ...

A bill being pushed through Congress could significantly alter how the Clean Water Act is implemented. Environmental groups warn that the PERMIT Act — passed on Dec. 10 in the House largely along ...

Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality stopped using independently collected samples to assess "impaired" waters six ...

The SPEED and PERMIT Acts would clear the way for more toxic fossil fuel, PFAS, and factory farm pollution in our water. The SPEED and PERMIT Acts would clear the way for more toxic fossil fuel, PFAS, ...

Congress established the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the Clean Water Act, or CWA, to restore and protect the quality of the nation’s surface waters. The CWA protects “navigable ...

Nov. 17 (UPI) --The Trump administration proposed changing the definition of wetlands Monday to limit which bodies of water are protected from pollution under the Clean Water Act. The administration's ...

The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed redefining key words in the Clean Water Act that would limit protections for wetlands. In a release on Monday, the proposal, dubbed the "Waters of the ...

The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association and American Public Power Association (collectively, “NRECA”) submitted February 17th joint comments to the United States Environmental Protection ...

No one has done more for Maine’s rivers and lakes since Sen. Edmund Muskie authored the Clean Water Act than Sen. Susan Collins.

The Association of Clean Water Administrators (“ACWA”) submitted February 17th comments to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) on the agency’s proposed rule addressing the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday proposed limiting states’ and Native American tribes’ power to wield the Clean Water Act to block major projects like natural gas ...