Adults fighting kids for clean water, despondent toddlers and a child with swollen feet denied a medical exam — these ...

Published: April 22, 2025 8:49am EDT Before Congress passed the Clean Water Act in 1972, U.S. factories and cities could pipe their pollution directly into waterways.

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 ...

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 ...

Maricopa County exceeded the ozone threshold deemed safe by the Clean Air Act on at least 46 days in 2024, and on 136 days over the last three years.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has signaled it could narrow which set of waters receive protections under the Clean Water Act — and will narrow protections for wetlands in the meantime.

The Clean Water Act, Alito wrote for the court, authorizes the EPA to place any “limitation” on sewage discharge.

At issue in the case is how the Clean Water Act—and, through it, the EPA—regulates offshore water pollution. The question is particularly important for San Francisco.

A new bill, SB-601, aims to enshrine the Clean Water Act of 1972 into California law, ensuring state water pollution laws cover the same waterways—wetlands, creeks, streams, rivers, and lakes ...

The Trump administration is angling to use a bedrock water law to build more natural gas pipelines across the United States. It’s a major potential pivot for the half-century-old Clean Water Act ...

US Clean Water Act leaves about 55% of water flowing out of rivers vulnerable to pollution SCOTUS ruling last year weakened the Clean Water Act, now a research team illustrates how this decision ...