Which Wetlands to Protect? Supreme Court Will Soon Decide
The U.S. loses about 60,000 acres of wetlands a year. An upcoming Supreme Court decision could settle decades of legal ambiguity about which wetlands should …
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This Supreme Court Case Could Destroy Clean Water Protections
The Supreme Court agreed this week to hear a case brought by two Idaho residents who have fought the Environmental Protection Agency for years over …
California and EPA Tussle Over Water Quality Protections
Attorneys for 18 states and 2 major cities were in federal court asking a judge to grant a preliminary injunction that would prevent the Environmental …
Trump Adminstration Killing Clean Water Rule
Barely two months after moving into the White House, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to revise the Waters of the …
Victory for Clean Water
On August 16, American Rivers won a huge victory in our lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s attempt to suspend the Clean Water Rule. This was a …
Experts slam Trump administration’s analysis for repealing Clean Water Rule
The economic analysis that the Trump administration is using to support its repeal of an Obama-era water pollution rule has serious flaws, economists and regulatory …
RIP Clean Water Rule
The Trump administration has officially begun repealing the Clean Water Rule, which was finalized by the Obama administration in 2015. The proposed repeal, which was …
Why farmers and ranchers think the EPA Clean Water Rule goes too far
President Trump issued an executive order Feb. 28 directing federal agencies to revise the Clean Water Rule, a major regulation published by the Environmental Protection …