The Clean Water Act’s Midlife Crisis

The Act turns 50 next year. Let’s make it young again.

Paul Greenberg
4 min readOct 28, 2021

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When you turn 50, three questions inevitably arise:
1) Who am I?
2) What have I done?
3) What else can I do?

Forty years ago, the U.S. Congress, in an uncharacteristically uncowardly move, overwhelmingly…

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Paul Greenberg

New York Times bestselling author of Four Fish as well as The Climate Diet and Goodbye Phone, Hello World paulgreenberg.org