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For decades, property owners across the United States have struggled to comply with the Clean Water Act (CWA),

A neighborhood lot in Idaho. Farmland in California. Properties in the West are running up against a controversial water rule that the Supreme Court is due to revisit.

What water can be regulated and where? Those questions are at the heart of a coming U.S. Supreme Court case considering the WOTUS water rule. Utah and other states have fought back against a rule they argue extends too much authority to the EPA.

The U.S. Supreme Court will soon try to FINALLY clarify what the Clean Water Act means by "Waters of the U.S."

The U.S. Supreme Court will soon try to FINALLY clarify what the Clean Water Act means by "Waters of the U.S."

American Farmers Shouldn’t Need Permission from the US Army to Grow Crops Harming farmers’ ability to produce food surplus harms all of us. Thursday, April 1, 2021 For nearly a decade, California farmer Jack LaPant was the target of an investigation and prosecution by the United States Army, who alleged that LaPant violated the Clean Water Act by growing a wheat crop to feed his cattle. Earlier this year, LaPant was able to settle the case to get the Army out of his hair, but the settlement...