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The Clean Water Act (CWA) is the primary federal law in the United States governing water pollution. Its objective is to restore and maintain the chemical, ...
Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency, 598 U.S. 651 (2023), also known as Sackett II (to distinguish it from the 2012 case), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that only wetlands and permanent bodies of water with a "continuous surface connection" to "traditional interstate navigable waters" are covered by the Clean Water Act.
The report from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality came five months after the Environmental Protection Agency also notified SpaceX that it had violated the Clean Water Act.
The complaint points to two federal court rulings that found that under the Clean Water Act, CAFOs could not be required by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to get a permit before ...
The Clean Water Justice Act, or SB 653 and HB 1101, protects communities’ rights to sue when the rules are broken, retaining the power of the people most directly threatened by pollution. It ...
The Clean Water Rule is a 2015 regulation published by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to clarify water resource management in the United States under a provision of the Clean Water Act of 1972. [1]
City and County of San Francisco v. Environmental Protection Agency is a pending United States Supreme Court case about whether the Clean Water Act allows the Environmental Protection Agency (or an authorized state) to impose generic prohibitions in National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permits that subject permit-holders to enforcement for violating water quality standards without ...
Obama campaigned to amend the Clean Water Act and to extend the Swamp buster program, however these commitments have yet to be followed-through with. Barack Obama’s administration is also working with Congress to amend the Clean Water Act so that isolated wetlands will fall under the Act’s protection. [13]