Grace Napolitano: “So it is possible you may not have enough experienced personnel to carry out some of the projects if you did have some…”

The Clean Water Act was specifically enacted as a Federal-State partnership. Today, EPA has approved 47 States to implement the point source discharge program under section 402 of the Clean Water Act. Their status as coregulators makes…

the Supreme Court's decision makes it impossible for the country to achieve Congress's objective in passing the Clean Water Act

I thank our remarkable team at legislative counsel for putting all of these provisions into legislative text. I am fortunate to have some of the best water leaders in the country in my district and southern California who provided valuable…

In my view, we get lost on questions of who is best suited to protect our water resources, rather than talking about the importance of rivers, streams, lakes and wetlands for current and future needs.