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 ...

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

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

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

The landscape of coastal real estate development in North Carolina has undergone a seismic shift following major regulatory changes over the last ...

On January 15, 2025, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a Draft “Sewage Sludge Risk Assessment for ...

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 ...

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 ...