Wyo. delegation opposes change to Clean Water Act

The three members of Wyoming congressional delegation is among 28 Republican lawmakers who oppose changing the Clean Water Act to clarify that it applies to all surface water in the United States, not strictly navigable water.

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EPA to delay 79 coal mining permits in 4 states

President Barack Obama's administration put the brakes on 79 applications for surface coal mining permits in four states Wednesday, saying they would violate the Clean Water Act.

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Union Pacific settles alleged water violations

The federal government says Union Pacific Railroad Company has agreed to settle alleged violations of the Clean Water Act in Nevada.

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Environmentalists sue EPA for cleaner water rules

Five environmental groups sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday, claiming the federal government is violating the Clean Water Act by failing to set standards for farm and urban runoff that is polluting Florida's waterways.

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W.Va. settles selenium lawsuit with coal mine

Magnum Coal has agreed to give West Virginia $3.5 million and an enormous pile of love-seat-sized rocks to settle a Clean Water Act lawsuit over dumping selenium into a southern West Virginia river.

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Across the nation, the system that Congress created to protect the nation's waters under the Clean Water Act of 1972 today often fails to prevent pollution.

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Neighbors apply special lotions after showering because their skin burns.

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Jennifer Hall-Massey knows not to drink the tap water in her home near Charleston, W.Va.

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Clean water flowing to homes is thought to be a given, but apparently not in West Virginia's state capital of Charleston and this is true of other cities and towns in other states around the nation.

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Violations of the Clean Water Act and the limited penalties imposed on violators are discussed in this lengthy New York Times article.

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In their adult form they live for a day. During that day, the Appalachian mayfly's primary function seems to be: Annoy hikers.

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With the election of Barack Obama, environmentalists expected to see the end of the "Appalachian apocalypse" -- their name for exposing coal deposits by blowing the tops off of whole mountains.

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In Poisoned Waters, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hedrick Smith examines the growing hazards to human health and the ecosystem.

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The longstanding disgrace of mountaintop mining is now squarely in President Obama's hands. More Articles

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You might catch a glimpse of Newtown Creek by traveling over one of its many bridges. But that glimpse doesn't give you the scope of the creek's importance to New York City's development, or exactly why it has become a zone of contention in the NYC landscape.

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In yet another lame-duck, Friday afternoon rulemaking, the Bush Administration E.P.A. today created a giant special loophole for factory farms.

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An official administration guidance document on wetlands policy is undermining enforcement of the Clean Water Act, said a March 4 memo written by the Environmental Protection Agency's chief enforcement officer.

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No one has ever accused Tyson Foods of being green. Even as the Springdale, AR-based meat giant's probation ends for 20 federal violations of the Clean Water Act at its Sedalia, MO chicken plant in 2003--it paid a $7.7 million fine--it is back in court.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. needs to invest $202.5 billion in its wastewater infrastructure due to aging facilities, rising water quality standards and population growth, the Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday.

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The EPA has a choice, to do its job and veto the Yazoo Backwater Project which will damage wildlife and wetlands, or it can let this plan go through.

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As oil spill cleanup continued Monday on the San Francisco Bay, state Senate Leader Don Perata rebuked Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for undermining the state agency charged with spill response.

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U.S. PIRG, an environmental watchdog group, used 2005 data to find that 3,600 facilities or 57 percent exceeded their Clean Water Act permits at least once. The average violation was more than thee times the limit of what can be dumped into a waterway.

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The Chesapeake Bay Foundation yesterday released a new report, "Bad Waters: Dead Zones, Algal Blooms, and Fish Kills in the Chesapeake Bay Region in 2007." The report documents this summer's bad water events and finds the Bay's resiliency is close to the tipping point.

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WASHINGTON, July 5 — After a concerted lobbying effort by property developers, mine owners and farm groups, the Bush administration scaled back proposed guidelines for enforcing a key Supreme Court ruling governing protected wetlands and streams.

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The landmark U.S. law to fight water pollution will now apply only to bodies of water large enough for boats to use, and their adjacent wetlands, and will not automatically protect streams, the U.S. government said on Tuesday.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The landmark U.S. law to fight water pollution will now apply only to bodies of water large enough for boats to use, and their adjacent wetlands, and will not automatically protect streams, the U.S. government said on Tuesday.

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I show Ms. Clinton no unwarranted respect with this seed, but the fact that the hearing is taking place is good news, and her political upside and local interest should spark at least a modicum of truth out of this whole thing.

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The Bush administration has declared itself immune from whistleblower protections for federal workers under the Clean Water Act, according to legal documents released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).

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The U.S. Supreme Court's June 19 decision in a case centered on the Clean Water Act is drawing calls for Congress to clarify exactly which waterways are covered by that law.

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Corporate farms and other businesses would not need to obtain a Clean Water Act permit in many water-transfer cases, under a rule proposed by the EPA.

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