Grace Napolitano: “Over the past 50 years, the Clean Water Act has made considerable progress in addressing our nation's water quality…”

I believe the Supreme Court purposefully chose to substitute its own philosophy over decades-old, legally grounded efforts to protect water quality.

Since 1973, American Rivers has protected wild rivers, restored damaged rivers, and conserved clean water for people and nature.

I believe this bill will restore the minimum levels of protections struck down by the conservative Supreme Court.

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…