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EPA at 50: Restoring Our Nation's Surface Waters
EPA continues to make progress restoring and protecting impaired water bodies, estuaries, wetlands and watersheds. For example, EPA’s National Estuary Program, with its partners, has protected and restored more than 2 million acres of estuary habitat since 2000.

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Read more about EPA's progress over the last 50 years.
Celebrating National African American History Month
Meet some of EPA's African-American employees - scientists, lawyers, economists, accountants, emergency responders, managers, inspectors, communicators - who help to protect the environment every day.
Navigable Waters Protection Rule
EPA and the Army delivered on President Trump's promise to finalize a revised definition for "waters of the United States" that protects the nation's navigable waters from pollution and will result in economic growth across the country.
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Learn more about the Navigable Waters Protection Rule

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EPA at 50 Join us as we celebrate 50 years of environmental protection.

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