Clean Water Act permits for sewage treatment plants, coal power plants, chemical facilities and other sources of water pollution expire every five years. State environmental regulators across the ...

The Supreme Court's recent ruling limits EPA's ability to regulate sewage discharge into U.S. waterways affecting water quality ... of the nation’s waters by preventing point source pollution.

It’s a type of plan that environmentalists, scientists and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says can be a ...

Human activities carried out on the surface, such as sewage disposal and the overuse of pesticides and fertilizers, including animal manure, are among the main sources of contamination and pollution ...

The news that the clean-up won’t be done in ten years has some environmentalists concerned that the Turkey Point cooling canals — the source of the salt pollution — have outlived their ...

“The Clean Water Act is very good at reducing pollution from point sources, but for non-point sources, like row crop agriculture, the Clean Water Act has proven not to be a sufficient tool.