Streams

Turning 40: Avoiding a Midlife Crisis for the Clean Water Act

Mekell Mikell | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Supreme Court, Omb, Mississippi River Delta, Epa, Chesapeake Bay, The Standells, National Wildlife Federation, Prairie Pothole, Army Corps of Engineers, Missouri River Basin, Clean Water Act, Wildlife, Wetlands, Streams, Lakes, Video, Green News
Mekell Mikell

Before the Clean Water Act, pollution was so bad that water bodies like the Cuyahoga River in Ohio and the Charles River in Massachusetts caught on fire faster than a batch of birthday candles.

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Clean Water Under Attack - Again

Steve Fleischli | Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Epa, Congress, President Obama, Army Corps, Water, Clean Water Act, Appropriations, Clean Water, Environment, Wetlands, Federal Budget, Senator Heller, Streams, Pollution, Rollbacks, Senator Barrasso, Clean-Water, Green News
Steve Fleischli

It seems a week doesn't go by where an extremist in Congress isn't threatening to undo our basic environmental laws. This week is no exception.

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America's Waterways Need Help - and, Yes, You Can Help

Steve Fleischli | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arlen Specter, Russ Feingold, Los Angeles River, Waterways, Lisa Jackson, Congress, Lamar Alexander, George Voinovich, Dianne Feinstein, Clean Water Restoration Act, Amy Klobuchar, Streams, New York City, Rivers, Clean Water Act, U.S. Senate, Kansas, Commerce Clause, Supreme Court, Clean Water, Max Baucus, Wetlands, Drinking Water, Rapanos, Green News
Steve Fleischli

By some estimates, 60 percent of U.S. creeks, rivers, and streams and tens of millions of acres of wetlands and other sensitive waterbodies have lost federal protection in the last few years due to the Supreme Court's decisions.

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