The federal Clean Water Act of 1972 was passed with the goal of making all U.S. waterways fishable and swimmable within a ...

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 ...

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced efforts to redefine which waters count as a “water of the U.S.” under the 1972 Clean Water Act. Kayla Bartkowski/AFP via Getty Images ...

Researchers say holes in the clay that overlays the Memphis aquifer could have let pollutants from as early as the 1940s into ...

T he US Supreme Court weakened restrictions on the discharge of raw sewage into the nation's water supplies in a 5-4 decision to roll back key provisions of the 1972 Clean Water Act (CWA ...

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 Clean Water Act, Alito wrote for the court, ... Alito purported to show that Congress revised the law in 1972 to eliminate a “backward-looking approach” to water maintenance, ...

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 ...