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Clean Water Act

The Fate of Protected Wetlands Are At Stake in the Supreme Court’s First Case of the Term

Environmentalists want the EPA to continue exercising broad authority over the nation’s waterways and wetlands. But conservatives say the agency’s expansive powers are unreasonable and hard to understand.

By Aman Azhar

Activists attend a rally to call for protection of the Clean Water Act outside of the U.S. Supreme Court as it begins a new term on Monday, October 3, 2022. The court was hearing arguments in the case of Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency. Credit: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images
Andrew Wheeler. Credit: Kevin Dietsch/Pool via Getty Images

Trump’s New Clean Water Act Rules Could Affect Embattled Natural Gas Projects on Both Coasts

By Kristoffer Tigue

A pipeline being built to pass under the Hudson River. Credit: Erik McGregor/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty

EPA Proposes Clean Water Act Rules Change to Fast-Track Pipelines

By Phil McKenna

Oil spill cleanup along Talmadge Creek, June 2011.

The Mystery of Michigan's Disappearing Dilbit

By Lisa Song

Initial cleanup of a 5-acre contaminated zone in the pipeline break area

EPA: Recovering Oil Not Spilled?

By David Sassoon, InsideClimate News

Mountaintop removal mining in Virginia

U.S. House Fast-Tracks Bill to Limit Clean Water Act

By Elizabeth McGowan, SolveClimate News

EPA Okays First Mountaintop Removal Mining Project Under New Guidelines

By Matthew Berger

More Than One Way to Limit Greenhouse Gases: EPA Looks at the Clean Water Act

By Dave Levitan

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