EPA moves to narrow Clean Water Act protections after Supreme Court ruling, raising concerns over water quality but providing ...

Though federal Clean Water Act rules don’t apply (and haven’t ever applied) to most ditches, they have protected the water ...

Despite the new “waters of the U.S.” definition, the Clean Water Act’s regulatory reach will likely continue generating legal controversy, according to an agricultural law expert. Two years after the ...

Idaho residents Michael and Chantell Sackett got a shock from the Environmental Protection Agency when they began backfilling ...

The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing limiting the power of states some authorized Indian tribes under the Clean ...

The federal government has narrowed the “waters of the U.S.” definition, potentially triggering a new legal battle over whether it’s scaled back Clean Water Act enforcement too far, experts say. Legal ...

In November, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposed a rule to redefine "Waters of the United States” under the Clean Water Act. The action aims to bring ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday it is redefining the scope of the nation’s ...

The recently proposed rule aims to align the definition of WOTUS with the US Supreme Court’s seminal decision in Sackett v. EPA in a manner that limits waters subject to federal regulation. It does so ...

Proposed changes to the federal definition of “waters of the United States” could strip protections from millions of wetlands.

On November 17, the Trump Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency and its Army Corps of Engineers issued a new rule that leading conservation groups say will gut the landmark Clean Water Act ...

As the federal government looks to narrow the definition of waters of the United States, New Mexico’s wetlands and ephemeral waters will still have regulatory protections thanks to a 2025 state ...