Communities already facing pollution and failing infrastructure can become even more vulnerable when federal protections are ...

Making the Chicago River a healthy, biodiverse and climate resilient lifeline through the city is the focus of many groups ...

Amid all the changes out of Washington, it can be easy to lose sight of not only which environmental policies and regulations ...

In 2023, the Supreme Court narrowed the definition of “ waters of the United States .” In its decision in Sackett vs.

Before Congress passed the Clean Water Act in 1972, U.S. factories and cities could pipe their pollution directly into ...

The Bee has reported on such water problems for years, at places like Lanare and East Orosi.

The Clean Water Act established a federal framework “to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the Nation’s waters.” As an attorney and law professor ...

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 ...

As federal protections for wetlands shrink, Prairie Rivers Network warns that southern Illinois could lose some of its last ...

Making the Chicago River a healthy, biodiverse and climate resilient lifeline through the city will now be supercharged by a freshly updated Clean Water Act permit and the efforts of nonprofits ...