That is what the Clean Water Act requires of EPA and the States. Moving away from the dictionary, the Court also reviewed the history of water pollution legislation.

The Supreme Court dealt another blow to federal environmental protections on Tuesday in a major water pollution case. In a 5–4 ruling in City and County of San Francisco v. EPA, the justices ...

The Chicago Trump International Hotel and Tower has agreed to pay a $4.8 million settlement for environmental violations to ...

The Clean Water Act regulates the discharge of pollutants into waters of the United States, or WOTUS. The WOTUS definition has shifted with White House polices and court decisions.

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 ...

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 ...

The agency reportedly notified SpaceX on March 13th that it was in violation of the federal Clean Water Act. Regardless, SpaceX moved forward with its third test flight on March 14th.

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 ...

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.

Phillips 66 Is Accused of Violating the Clean Water Act. The oil company was indicted on charges of dumping nearly 800,000 gallons of contaminated wastewater into the Los Angeles County sewer system.