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 ...

The proposal would sharply narrow which wetlands and streams are protected. The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed redefining key words in the Clean Water Act that would limit protections ...

Companies that produce and discharge pollutants are subject to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) oversight under the Clean Water Act. The EPA routinely conducts inspections focused on federal ...

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 ...

(Beyond Pesticides, August 25, 2025) What the Republican-led Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure in the U.S. House of Representatives calls legislation to “Cut Red Tape and Increase Clean ...

Clean water soon could join a list of issues – smog, the minimum wage, gun control – as an area where California law goes further than similar laws in the rest of the country. But here’s the rub: The ...