The EPA has announced changes to the Clean Water Act that will make streams and wetlands vulnerable to pollution across the ...

The EPA is moving to narrow the definitions of protected waterways under the Clean Water Act, opening many waterways to ...

In a release on Monday, the proposal, dubbed the "Waters of the United States" (WOTUS) rule, says wetlands and streams that are seasonal or flow inconsistently would no longer be protected under the ...

The Trump administration has proposed changing the definition of wetlands to limit which bodies of water are protected under ...

EPA’s new rules, made in conjunction with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, would “fully implement” the Sackett decision, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday it is redefining the scope of the nation’s bedrock clean water law to significantly limit the wetlands it covers, building on a ...

The United States Environmental Protection Agency and the United States Department of the Army (collectively, “EPA”) has published a ...

The EPA's proposed weakening of the Clean Water Act would likely exclude many waterways and a majority of Kentucky's wetlands ...

The Supreme Court dealt another blow to federal environmental protections on Tuesday in a major water pollution case. In a 5–4 ruling in City and County of San Francisco v. EPA, the justices held that ...

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 ...