After a U.S. Supreme Court decision narrowing wetland protections, the EPA says it will revamp rules many farmers have long opposed.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced on Wednesday that it will narrow the definition of waters that can be ...

Would the government punish a rural town of 56 people for draining water to ensure ambulance access for its residents?

It would also fill in more than 5,000 feet of streams at the site. Local citizens are raising concerns about the ecological ...

Ditches are human-made, linear waterways built to serve a variety of purposes. By draining wetlands, they can help create productive soils for growing crops or trees. Ditches can emit large ...

Human activities that lead to loss of wetlands include drainage and infilling for agriculture and construction, pollution, overfishing and overexploitation of resources, invasive species and ...

What we want to do is remove about 0.35 acres of current site wetlands, in exchange for wetlands that are already in place, ...

Multiple residents came forward during Tuesday night’s Effingham County commissioner meeting to express concern over a ...

Plans are moving ahead for draining and dredging shallow and muddy Glenwood Lake, restoring its dam and adding a wetlands area for visitors to see when the revitalization project has concluded. The ...

The wetland is the draining location for water runoff from Falcon Heights, Minn., the St. Paul campus and portions of the Minneapolis campus. Pollutants have combined from traffic at the fairgrounds, ...