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 waterways. Rivers, including the Potomac in Washington, smelled of raw sewage ...

Claytor Lake is back open and ready for business. The sun is shining, the water is clean, and all debris has been removed ...

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 ...

That unchecked pollution didn’t just harm the rivers and their ecosystems; it harmed the humans who relied on their water. The Clean Water Act established a federal framework “to restore and ...

Jeremy Orr, Michigan State University (THE CONVERSATION) Before Congress passed the Clean Water Act in 1972, U.S. factories and cities could pipe their pollution directly into waterways.