Thomas Jorling helped write the laws that reshaped the nation’s air and water. Now, he warns that narrowing federal ...

Federal actions like the 1970 Clean Air Act and the 1972 Clean Water Act helped regulate water and air pollution.

On November 17, the Trump Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency and its Army Corps of Engineers issued a new rule that leading conservation groups say will gut the landmark Clean Water Act ...

Before Congress passed the Clean Water Act in 1972, U.S. factories and cities could pipe their pollution directly into waterways. Rivers, including the Potomac in Washington, smelled of raw sewage and ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - A conservation group said that local wetlands could be in danger due to a potential change in federal policy. The Clean Water Act (1972) protects “waters of the United States” ...

The long-term health of the ocean off the coast of Southern California, and the health of the region’s freshwater streams and rivers and lakes, soon could hinge on the Trump administration’s ...