EPA moves to narrow Clean Water Act protections after Supreme Court ruling, raising concerns over water quality but providing clarity for farmers, builders.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On November 17, the Trump Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency and its Army Corps of Engineers issued a new rule that leading conservation groups say will gut the landmark Clean Water Act ...

(Beyond Pesticides, August 25, 2025) What the Republican-led Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure in the U.S. House of Representatives calls legislation to “Cut Red Tape and Increase Clean ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump, Republicans, and conservatives at the Supreme Court are escalating a decades-long assault on clean water protections. Through deregulations and cuts at the Environmental ...

All life on Earth needs water to survive — and wetlands are among the most productive and biodiverse water sources in the world. They're essential to 40% of animals and plants, from the top to the ...