Clean Water Act Related Topics 
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 18, 2022
The Clean Water Act (CWA), one of the nation’s most important environmental laws, is 50 years old today. But 50 years after its creation, the Clean Water Act has proven substantially less effective in other areas. (credit: Amazon). Download as PDF.
Yale E360
OCTOBER 13, 2022
Sparked by the 1970s environmental movement, the Clean Water Act — which marks its 50 th anniversary this month — transformed America’s polluted rivers. The Delaware, once an industrial cesspool, is one of the success stories, but its urban stretches remain a work in progress. Read more on E360 ?.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 26, 2025
Paris, like many coastal cities in the US such as San Francisco, has a combined sewer system where after heavy rain events, pipes get overwhelmed and raw sewage can flow into nearby waters. EPA Supreme Court decision undermining the Clean Water Act and eroding the EPA’s ability to enforce it.
Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
Environmental Protection Agency that stripped Clean Water Act protections from many inland wetlands. Agricultures devastating toll is evident in the Prairie Pothole Region of the Upper Midwest, where it caused 95% of wetland loss between 1997 and 2009.
Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Davis School of Law will convene a major, day-long conference to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the federal Clean Water Act. This conference will provide an important, interdisciplinary perspective on the Clean Water Act and water quality issues, thanks to CELPC’s conference planning partners: U.C.D’s
Inside Climate News
OCTOBER 25, 2024
Some upstream users are racing to divert more water from the declining river, a choice that a judge wrote in a recent court ruling is “perplexing” and risks forcing cutbacks for users in the future. By Wyatt Myskow A federal district court judge ruled last week that the U.S.
National Law Center
AUGUST 4, 2022
The post Clean Water Act Citizen Suits Before Fourth Circuit appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center. An important component of many environmental statutes is the ability for private citizens to initiate lawsuits to enforce the statute.
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