River Impacts and the Clean Water Act
How the Clean Water Act Protects Your Rivers -
The historic law was designed to protect all of our waters – from the smallest streams to the mightiest rivers – from pollution and destruction.
The Clean Water Act 101 - NRDC
So when the Clean Water Act (CWA) was enacted in 1972, it drastically changed the course of public and environmental health. The bipartisan law ...
Clean Water Act | National Wildlife Federation
The Clean Water Act is the primary federal law that protects our nation's rivers, lakes, coasts, streams, and wetlands from being polluted or physically ...
Summary of the Clean Water Act | US EPA
The Clean Water Act regulates discharges of pollutants into U.S. waters, and controls pollution by means such as wastewater standards for ...
Clean Water Act | Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership
The Clean Water Act helps to protect rivers, streams, and wetlands through two permitting programs. One requires permits for any point source—for example, ...
Clean Water Act (CWA) | Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
The CWA made it unlawful for any person to discharge any pollutant from a point source into waters of the United States, unless a NPDES permit was obtained ...
The Clean Water Act - River Network
The Clean Water Act (CWA) is one of the most comprehensive environmental statutes in the United States. It seeks to protect both human health and ecological ...
The Clean Water Act at 50: Big Successes, More to Be Done
Sparked by the 1970s environmental movement, the Clean Water Act — which marks its 50th anniversary this month — transformed America's polluted ...
Five Clean Water Act Success Stories - PBS
As a result, 700 billion pounds of pollution have been diverted from America's rivers and the number of waters that meet clean water goals has ...
The Clean Water Act Protects Us From Polluters. It's Under Attack.
By cracking down on pollution discharges into rivers, lakes, streams, and wetlands, it has dramatically improved water quality in communities ...
Overview of the Clean Water Act
The Act allowed us to achieve significantly higher water quality standards; its impacts have spread far and wide across the country in more ways than just ...
Clean Water Act (CWA) and Federal Facilities | US EPA
The CWA aims to prevent, reduce, and eliminate pollution in the nation's water in order to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological ...
50 Years After the Clean Water Act—Gauging Progress | U.S. GAO
... rivers, streams, and other water bodies ... EPA can provide technical assistance to help water utilities prepare for future climate change impacts ...
CONSEQUENCES OF THE CLEAN WATER ACT AND THE ...
Third, estimated effects of grants on whether rivers are fishable out to 100 miles downstream of a treatment plant only show effects within 25 miles (Appendix ...
Clean Water Act dramatically cut pollution in U.S. waterways
The share of rivers safe for fishing increased by 12 percent between 1972 and 2001. A forest stream. The Clean Water Act has decreased measures ...
Clean Water Act of 2023 | The House Committee on Transportation ...
Ohio's Cuyahoga River caught on fire. The Potomac River was called a “national disgrace.” Congress knew it had to act. In 1972, Congress—by a 10-to ...
State Action on Bolstering Clean Water Act Protections - River Network
This rule removed federal protection from wetlands, headwater streams, and ephemeral streams, all of which can have major impacts on the water quality of larger ...
Environmental Law: The Clean Water Act - LawShelf
The burning of the Cuyahoga River was not the only environmental disaster caused by unregulated dumping into our nation's waters, but the publicity of the event ...
History of the Clean Water Act
The Clean Water Act created a new permitting system for anybody discharging pollutants into the waters covered by the Act.
minimize any impacts to wetlands and other waters. Mitigation typically involves ... Howard University students cleaning up the Anacostia River Photo: EPA.