The Clean Water Act has reached its 50th anniversary. Still befuddling federal regulators is nonpoint-source pollution — a technocratic term describing pesticides, oil, fertilizers, toxins ...

The Clean Water Act is a U.S. federal law that regulates the discharge of pollutants into the nation’s surface waters, including lakes, rivers, streams, wetlands, and coastal areas. Passed in ...

The case made its way to the Supreme Court after environmental groups sued Maui County in 2012 for failing to get a federal Clean Water Act permit even though the pollution is entering ...

That began to change in 1948, when Congress passed the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. However, this first national framework for water quality regulation, fell flat because it failed to provide ...

The Clean Water Act is one of America’s greatest environmental success stories. It has reined in industrial pollution and restored lakes, rivers, and streams from coast to coast. But 50 years after ...

Pollution Problems Before the Clean Water Act Before the Clean Water Act, U.S. waterways were famously filthy. Untreated and undertreated wastewater filled nearby cities with the smell of human waste.

Read about five success stories since 1972 when Congress passed the Clean Water Act, ... Act has funded approximately 35,000 grants totaling $1 trillion invested towards curbing water pollution.

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 ...

Implemented in response to growing public awareness and concern for controlling water pollution in the U.S., the Clean Water Act followed the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ...

Florida’s biggest sources of water pollution — agriculture and development — aren’t held to strict limits on the nitrogen and phosphorus that flow off sprawling farms and city streets.