The US Supreme Court weakened restrictions on the discharge of raw sewage into the nation's water supplies in a 5-4 decision to roll back key provisions of the 1972 Clean Water Act (CWA ...

The Clean Water Act directs the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate this discharge to ensure that it does not pose a threat to human health or ecosystems. Specifically, the EPA may issue ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down rules regulating the discharge of water pollution, narrowing the landmark Clean Water Act in ... “I guess they haven’t heard that Trump is gutting ...

The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Tuesday that the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) rules for the city of San Francisco under the Clean Water Act on raw sewage discharge are overly vague ...

For example, because of the Porter-Cologne Act of 1969, they are required to pump recycled wastewater out of the Basin so that it doesn’t pollute the water system of Lake Tahoe. Standards for ...

A federal judge has ruled that the operators of Modern Landfill violated the Clean Water Act 419 times between ... that Republic Services was liable for discharge of pollutants into Kreutz Creek ...

In other places, foam created by chemical discharge sat so tall atop the water that it could ... employee who led its clean-up efforts. Buildings in Wausau didn't have windows on the side that ...

This article was updated on May 25 at 12:55 p.m. The Supreme Court on Thursday established a more stringent test to determine whether the Clean Water Act applies to a ... which bars the discharge of ...

And the company’s total combined discharge ... It is critical that water be clean, especially in the drought-stricken West, where it is a precious commodity. “We can’t just be so cavalier ...