Recognizing the challenge associated with the Clean Water Act’s vague language, and the likelihood that other legal suits will arise in the future, the Biden administration set out last year to ...

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 ...

Waters of the U.S. The Clean Water Act is the federal policy that has regulated water pollution in the U.S. since 1972.

Closing out our Earth Week series this year, we provide an update on recent Clean Water Act regulatory developments and discuss their impact on renewable energy development. The Clean Water Act ...

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 ...

A new law would get the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources more actively involved in regulating Vermont farms to meet federal water quality requirements, but critics say it doesn’t go far enough.

The Supreme Court Muddied the Clean Water Act Yet Again Amy Coney Barrett joined the liberal justices in a dissent against Samuel Alito—and his thinly veiled policy agenda.

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 ...

All future water pollution laws in California will have to cover the same waterways – wetlands, creeks, streams rivers and lakes – that applied to the federal Clean Water Act as recently as ...