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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Washington, D.C. — Today the House voted largely along party lines to pass the PERMIT Act. The legislation would weaken the Clean Water Act, one of America’s bedrock environmental laws, in serious ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...