Groups from Iowa and several other states have asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to invoke its emergency authority under the Safe Drinking Water Act and implement a national approach to ...

Groups in Iowa petitioned the EPA in April 2024 to “act now to address this long-ignored health crisis in Iowa and ensure clean drinking water for Iowans.” SUBSCRIBE: GET THE MORNING HEADLINES ...

“we’re not going to see any significant water quality [improvements] in these rivers for 15 years.” EPA officials said that they matched the implementation to the same timeline as other ...

The Center for Biological Diversity (“CBD”) filed an October 21st Title V Petition to Object (“Petition”) before the United States ...

"Everybody really doesn't think about stormwater as being all that bad, but it is," said Lynne Jennings, chief of EPA Region 1's ... that the goal of the Clean Water Act — of fishable, swimmable ...

Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird and 24 other states filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court Monday in support of the Port of Tacoma’s appeal of a U.S. circuit court decision that upheld a ...

Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird and 24 other states, including Nebraska, filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday in support of the Port of Tacoma’s appeal of a U.S. Circuit Court ...

EPA’s (Environmental Protection Agency ... human health, and the Region’s clean water, healthy rivers, and fisheries. The Board of the Coalition for a Clean CFAC: Shirley Folkwein, Phil ...

Since the Clean Air Act took effect, emissions of the most common pollutants have fallen by around 80%. The law has saved millions of lives and trillions of dollars. An EPA analysis showed that ...

Now, the Indiana Department of Environmental Management has requested EPA assistance. The site was referred to us by IDEM in December. We went out, did the site assessment, and then started the ...

The precedent that set the court’s opinion was a citizen suit from 1995 claiming the City of Portland had violated the Clean Water Act. O’Scannlain said in his concurring statement the ...

David Chiu discusses City and County of San Francisco v. EPA, in which the court is considering whether the Environmental Protection Agency violates the Clean Water Act when it imposes generic ...