What Is at Stake?

For decades, the Clean Water Act protected the Nation's surface water resources from unregulated pollution and rescued them from the crisis status they were in during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Polluters, bolstered by a pair of recent Supreme Court decisions, claim the Act no longer protects numerous wetlands, streams, rivers, lakes and other waters that historically had been covered.

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