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 and ...

Clean, safe drinking water is something most homeowners take for granted, yet it relies on a delicate balance of pressure, proper plumbing design, and effective safeguards working behind the scenes.

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 ...

Climate-fueled floods can and have cut off access to essential clean water. We need funding for infrastructure and an end to climate-wrecking fossil fuels. Climate-fueled floods can and have cut off ...

What was originally meant to “restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the Nation’s Waters” has drifted into a mechanism to delay or block federally permitted energy ...

The United States Environmental Protection Agency and the United States Department of the Army (collectively, “EPA”) has published a Pre-Publication Notice proposing a rule that would revise the ...

The Biden administration took action Thursday to restore federal protections for hundreds of thousands of small streams, wetlands and other waterways, undoing a Trump-era rule that was considered one ...

The Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposed an amendment to the Clean Water Act that would make it so wetlands and streams that are seasonal or flow ...