The Great Lakes have endured a lot the past century, from supersized algae blobs to invasive mussels and bloodsucking sea lamprey that nearly wiped out fish populations.

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While failures of big city water systems attract the attention, it's small communities like Keystone, West Virginia, that more often are left unprotected by destitute and unmaintained water providers.

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The Wisconsin governor announced a total of $143 million from two EPA programs to improve water infrastructure across the state.

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The Biden administration took action Thursday to restore federal protections for hundreds of thousands of small streams, wetlands and other waterways, undoing a Trump-era rule that was considered one of that administration's hallmark environmental rollbacks.

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The Trump administration held the first of two hearings on Tuesday for a proposal meant to speed up energy and other projects by rolling back a landmark environmental law.

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In a big rollback of environmental oversight, President Donald Trump took action Thursday to clear the way and speed up the development of a wide range of commercial projects by cutting back federal review of their likely effects on the environment.

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The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider a case about the reach of a federal clean-water law.

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President Donald Trump said on Monday that farmers would be the big winners from the administration's proposed rollback of federal protections for wetlands and waterways across the country.

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The Trump administration is moving to withdraw federal protections for countless waterways and wetlands across the country, making good on President Donald Trump's campaign pledge to weaken landmark water rules long resented by some developers, farmers and oil, gas and mining executives.

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Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel has joined 18 other GOP attorneys general in asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a ruling finding that Clean Water Act protections extend to non-point pollution.

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