The Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), signed ... Celebrating 50 years of progress, the EPA continues working with partners to achieve the vision of clean, safe drinking water for all Americans.

The agencies proposed restoring longstanding protections that had been eliminated in 2020 — restoring protections for more than half of America’s wetlands, along with many rivers and streams, under ...

In America, that right is enshrined in the Clean Water Act of 1972, which defines how ... public health protections—and won them. Nearly 50 years later we need to rise up again.

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that sewage plants and other industries cannot avoid environmental requirements under landmark clean-water protections when they send dirty water on an indirect route.

It’s a major potential pivot for the half-century-old Clean Water Act, a law prized by environmentalists and grassroots ...

The Clean Water Act made it illegal to pollute a “water of the United States” without a permit, but the parameters of those terms have been at the center of legal wrangling over the years. The current ...