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 ...

Advertisement The question presented by the city focused on whether the Clean Water Act allows the EPA to impose rules that subject permit holders to enforcement for exceeding water quality ...

“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 ...

In some instances, there were massive fish die-offs, creating profound impacts on birds and communities. But thanks to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Clean Water Act, our waterways ...

Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in the Sackett case in May of 2023, the U.S. EPA (“EPA”) and the U.S. Army Corps (“Army Corps”) have amended federal regulations to conform to ...

August 11, 2023, Paper: "In 1972, Congress passed the Clean Water Act1 by overwhelming bipartisan majorities ... The Senate vote was 52 to 12 and the House vote was 247 to 23.4 The Act has since been ...

The U.S. Supreme Court will test how flexible the EPA and states can be in regulating water pollution under the Clean Water Act when it hears oral argument in City and County of San Francisco v.

more EPA and the Corps have won one in North Carolina but their most recent Waters of the United States rule isn't nearly out of the ...

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ANACORTES, Wash. — The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has fined Venoil, LLC. of Anacortes almost $58 thousand for violation of the Clean Water Act. On October 2, the EPA fined the company ...