The Clean Water Act’s Midlife Crisis

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

A half century ago, the highly polluted Cuyahoga River caught fire, spurring the creation of the Clean Water Act “BE077062” by Sabatu is marked under CC PDM 1.0. To view the terms, visit https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

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…