Spokane – has less than a month to pay up after settling a federal lawsuit last Thursday at the expense of around 300 ...

The Clean Water Act has been an exceptionally constructive law, vital to the ecological integrity of the country and broadly popular with the public. It would be a shame to risk all that by ...

How the Clean Water Act Became Law . Following a blowout of Union Oil’s Platform A on January 28, 1969, 3.2 million gallons of crude oil spilled into the coastal waters of Santa Barbara, California.

With the Los Angeles skyline behind it, runoff flows down the Los Angeles River through Vernon on Feb. 6, 2024. A new bill, SB-601, aims to enshrine the Clean Water Act of 1972 into California law ...

On this day 50 years ago, Congress passed the Clean Water Act. This cornerstone environmental law of the 20th century aimed to eliminate all polluting discharges into our nation’s waterways. For many ...

In April, the U.S. Supreme Court established a new standard under the Clean Water Act when it vacated and remanded a closely watched U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decision that ...

The urgent and deepening neglect of America’s water quality does not reflect the strength of the clean water law itself. Since its enactment in 1972, the Clean Water Act’s requirements and enforcement ...

Proposed California water law would revive Clean Water Act rules Supporters of SB 601 say the bill is a response to a 2023 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court and to a second Trump administration ...