Tag: Clean Water Act
San Francisco is suing the EPA over how specific water pollution...
Robin Kundis Craig, University of Kansas
The U.S. Supreme Court will test how flexible the EPA and states can...
The Supreme Court just shriveled federal protection for wetlands, leaving many...
Albert C. Lin, University of California, Davis
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in Sackett v. EPA that federal...
Fines for breaking US pollution laws can vary widely among states...
Jerry Anderson, Drake University
It’s expensive to pollute the water in Colorado. The state’s median fine for companies caught...
How to steer money for drinking water and sewer upgrades to...
Andrian Lee, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Melissa Scanlan, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
When storms like Hurricane Ian strike, many people...
Which wetlands should receive federal protection? The Supreme Court revisits a...
Albert C. Lin, University of California, Davis
The U.S. Supreme Court opens its new session on Oct. 3, 2022,...
On environmental protection, Biden’s election will mean a 180-degree turn from...
Janet McCabe, Indiana University
The Trump administration has waged what I and many other legal experts view as an all-out assault on the nation’s environmental...
Small streams and wetlands are key parts of river networks –...
Ellen Wohl, Colorado State University
The Trump administration is proposing to redefine a key term in the Clean Water Act: “Waters of the United States.”...
Rural Americans’ struggles against factory farm pollution find traction in court
Sacoby Wilson, University of Maryland
As U.S. livestock farming becomes more industrial, it is changing rural life. Many people now live near Concentrated Animal Feeding...
EXPLORING NATURE
Biobots arise from the cells of dead organisms − pushing the...
Peter A Noble, University of Washington and Alex Pozhitkov, Irell & Manella Graduate School of Biological Sciences at City of Hope
