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

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

Do you think concentration camps are cool? Does your heart fill with mean-spirited joy at the thought of human beings stuffed ...

Dawn Buehler spent her childhood helping out on the family farm in De Soto, next to the Kansas River. But when her chores ...

The Kansas River is cleaner today than half a century ago, but pollution and trash remain problems. Kayakers and others who ...

Does your heart fill with mean-spirited joy at the thought of human beings stuffed into tents and FEMA trailers parked on a ...

The passage of these essential reforms are the opening act in the movement for a sustainable California that builds and ...

Michael Garrity writes, The Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act protects the environment, fights climate change, and ...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene posted on X that she will introduce a bill to prohibit weather modification amid the escalation of the Texas floods.

There were talks of cleaning the creek going all the way back to the 1950s and 60s, but it wasn’t until the Clean Water Act of 1972 that things started to happen.

This act, known as the FWPCA , will go through amendments in 1956, 1965, and 1972 to broaden the government’s authority in water pollution control. October 30-31, 1948 ...