Clean Water Act

April 23, 2019 | Press Release

Earthjustice Responds to Trump Executive Order, Urges EPA to Ensure Transparency and Public Input in Clean Water Protections

Letter to Administrator Wheeler objects to efforts to undermine authority of states and tribes to protect water quality under the Clean Water Act

April 23, 2019 | Letter

Letter to Administrator Wheeler: Objecting to efforts to undermine Clean Water Act

Earthjustice, leading a group of 16 conservation and community groups, sent a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today objecting to the Trump administration’s efforts to weaken clean water protections without public input. The letter comes in response to an executive order signed by President Trump on April 10, 2019, that seeks to undermine the authority of states and tribes to protect water quality under the Clean Water Act.

April 16, 2019 | Press Release

Trump Administration Reverses Position in Supreme Court Hawaiʻi Clean Water Act Case

Administration sides with industry to allow polluters to use groundwater as sewers

April 15, 2019 | Press Release: Victory

Federal Appeals Court Orders EPA to Strengthen Rule on Toxic Power Plant Wastewater

EPA must update guidelines for reducing pollution from steam-electric power plants

April 12, 2019 | Legal Document

2015 ELG Rule Opinion

Steam-electric power plants generate most of the electricity used in our nation and, sadly, an unhealthy share of the pollution discharged into our nation’s waters. To control this pollution, the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq., empowers the Environmental Protection Agency to promulgate and enforce rules known as “effluent limitation guidelines” or “ELGs.”

April 11, 2019 | Press Release

Trump EPA Targets Washington State Clean Water Standards

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency memo reveals plan to return to weaker standards

April 10, 2019 | Press Release

Earthjustice Denounces Trump’s Power Grab on Pipelines

Trump’s executive orders seek to restrict public input and state authority that protect communities and their land and water

April 10, 2019 | Legal Document

Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief: Rosemont Mining Company

The Tohono O’odham Nation; Pascua Yaqui Tribe; and Hopi Tribe are filing a complaint against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in re: the proposed Rosemont Mining Company's plans to excavate a mile-wide, half-mile deep pit to extract copper — a proposal that would spell the permanent devastation of this important center of Native American cultural and religious life, degrade the
Cienega Creek watershed, and destroy an intricate network of drainages containing some of the highest quality streams and wetland ecosystems in Arizona.