Shortcomings of the Clean Water Act

Clean Water Act

Definition The US Congress enacted the Clean Water Act in 1972 (P.L. 92-500, the 1972 Amendments to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act), which is the principal law dealing with polluting activity in streams, rivers, lakes, and estuaries of the USA (Copeland, 2006). The Clean Water Act established a water quality standards approach for regulating water quality, with the US Environmental Pro...

Making waves with the Clean Water Act.

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No more muddy waters: cleaning up the Clean Water Act.

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Successes and shortcomings of the Food and Drug Modernization Act.

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Is the Clean Air Act unconstitutional?