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Clean Water Act

An aerial view of the idled Bluestone Coke facility in Birmingham, Ala. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Coal Baron a No-Show in Alabama Courtroom as Abandoned Plant Continues to Pollute Neighborhoods

By Dennis Pillion
A view of the Chesapeake Bay off Annapolis, Maryland, on March 27. This year’s Chesapeake Bay and Watershed report card ranked the Bay’s overall health at a “C+”—its highest grade in more than 20 years. Credit: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images

Historic Investments and Accountability Push Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Efforts In Right Direction, Says EPA Mid-Atlantic Administrator

By Aman Azhar
Bridges cross the marshes and streams of the Chesapeake Bay watershed on Tangier Island in Virginia. Credit: Katherine Frey/The Washington Post via Getty Images

When a Retired Scientist Suggested Virginia Weaken Wetlands Protections, the State Said, No Way

By Sarah Vogelsong
A wetland in the Croatan National Forest in eastern North Carolina. Wetlands help offset the damaging effects of climate change. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

In North Carolina, a Legal Fight Over Wetlands Protections

By Lisa Sorg
A car drives along a flooded East Bay Street as Charleston, S.C. endured flooding due to the combination of an offshore storm system and an unusually high king tide on Nov. 5, 2021. Credit: Kit MacAvoy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Heavy Rain and Rising Sea Levels Are Sending Sewage Into Some Charleston Streets and Ponds

By Daniel Shailer
Hazel Chandler is part of a largely unrecognized contingent of the climate movement in the United States: the climate grannies. Credit: Caitlin O’Hara/The 19th

These Are the Climate Grannies. They’ll Do Whatever It Takes to Protect Their Grandchildren

By Jessica Kutz, The 19th
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

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

By Aman Azhar
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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