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 held that ...

Environmental groups warn the PERMIT Act could weaken Clean Water Act protections, limit oversight, and fast-track projects ...

A 2025 poll showed that clean, reliable sources of water beat out inflation and healthcare reform as the top concern for ...

Today the House voted largely along party lines to pass the PERMIT Act. The legislation would weaken the Clean Water Act, one of America’s bedrock environme ...

It might seem peculiar that the definition of "waters of the United States" depends not on science or even custom but on ...

The Environmental Protection Agency announced changes to the Clean Water Act that sportsmen’s organizations say could set us back 50 years to a time when rivers lit on fire and fish went belly up.

The proposal would sharply narrow which wetlands and streams are protected. The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed redefining key words in the Clean Water Act that would limit protections ...

(Beyond Pesticides, August 25, 2025) What the Republican-led Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure in the U.S. House of Representatives calls legislation to “Cut Red Tape and Increase Clean ...

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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, a ...