The Environmental Protection Agency is reviewing regulatory changes the Biden administration made that broadened the ...

The Trump administration on Wednesday announced it will reconsider the reach of the nation’s bedrock clean water law and ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency once again will revisit a controversial rule to define streams and wetlands ...

President Trump’s declaration of a national energy emergency invokes the National Emergencies Act, which allows the president ...

The landmark decision alters the NPDES permit landscape, shifting the focus to specific actions over general outcomes.

The Clean Water Act’s ambiguous definition of "waters of the United States" led to a restrictive U.S. Supreme Court ...

On March 4, 2025, in City & County of San Francisco v. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Clean Water Act does not authorize “end-result” provisions in National ...

A Supreme Court ruling placed limits on federal protections for many streams and wetlands. A bill in California’s Legislature ...

Last Tuesday, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in favor of San Francisco, making it harder for the Environmental Protection Agency ...

On March 4, 2025, the Supreme Court of the United States issued its decision in City & County of San Francisco v. Environmental Protection Agency ...

Our lives rely on systems. Flush the toilet, the sewage system takes it away. Flip an electrical switch, the lights turn on.

That decision departed from decades of federal ... the Clean Water Act's power. At the center of those cases is the definition of just five words in the law, “waters of the United States ...