Slaughterhouse Rules: How our lawsuit led to a national effort to curb meat processing pollution
The EPA just proposed new standards for America’s slaughterhouses that would reduce pollution going into our waterways.
Rivers & lakes
Our country’s lakes, rivers and streams give life to ecosystems and people alike from coast to coast. Now it’s time we protect them as the life-giving resources they are.
The Latest on Rivers & lakes
A look back at what our unique network accomplished in 2023
Statement: Senate rejects amendment that would speed approval of polluting projects
Updates
Clean water groups urge Congress to tackle microplastics
Update: Environmental law under threat
Protecting America’s rivers as ‘Wild & Scenic,’ one stretch at a time
Featured Resources
Environment Florida’s 2024 Priorities
Clean Water Act on Trial
Safe for Swimming?
Wasting our Waterways
The Latest
Four decades later, another win for the Boundary Waters
The Biden administration canceled mining leases near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness -- a place that our network first helped protect way back in 1978.
All of America’s waters should be safe for swimming. Fixing our infrastructure is the first step
Congress is providing more funding for infrastructure to help keep our waters clean.
Statement: Federal court invalidates ‘Dirty Water Rule’
The United States District Court for the District of Arizona on Monday vacated the Trump administration’s Navigable Waters Protection Rule (NWPR), which wiped out federal protections for half the nation’s remaining wetlands and thousands of streams that provide drinking water to millions of Americans. Citing serious legal errors and harm caused by the rule, the court decreed that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Army Corps of Engineers need to draft a new rule defining the scope of waterways protected under the federal Clean Water Act.
Pathogens pose risk at 185 of Florida beaches
ST. PETERSBURG, FL – With Floridians returning to local beaches this summer, a new report warns that more work is needed to ensure that all waters are safe for swimming. In 2020, 185 Florida beaches were potentially unsafe for swimming on at least one day, according to Safe for Swimming? -- Environment Florida Research and Policy Center’s annual analysis of bacteria testing.
Statement: EPA to repeal and replace the Dirty Water Rule
WASHINGTON -- The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Army Corps of Engineers announced steps Wednesday to repeal and replace the Trump administration’s Navigable Waters Protection Rule. The rule left half the nation’s remaining wetlands and thousands of streams without federal protection under the Clean Water Act. Environment America and other groups have asked a court to overturn the rule.
