EPA proposed Monday new rules to define the waters of the United States, or WOTUS, protected under the Clean Water Act.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced plans to redefine “waters of the U.S” and promised a “consequential day of deregulation.” The federal government will scale back oversight of waters and wetlands ...

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 and ...