The Bee has reported on such water problems for years, at places like Lanare and East Orosi.

Communities already facing pollution and failing infrastructure can become even more vulnerable when federal protections are ...

Making the Chicago River a healthy, biodiverse and climate resilient lifeline through the city is the focus of many groups ...

Amid all the changes out of Washington, it can be easy to lose sight of not only which environmental policies and regulations ...

Before Congress passed the Clean Water Act in 1972, U.S. factories and cities could pipe their pollution directly into ...

In 2023, the Supreme Court narrowed the definition of “ waters of the United States .” In its decision in Sackett vs.

As federal protections for wetlands shrink, Prairie Rivers Network warns that southern Illinois could lose some of its last ...

President Donald Trump called for energy and mineral independence, granting environmental permits in days rather than months.

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 ...

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 ...

The Clean Water Act established a federal framework “to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the Nation’s waters.” As an attorney and law professor ...

The states that border the Mississippi River have lost at least half of the wetlands they once had, including Wisconsin.