EPA Plans Final CWA Rule In 2015 Despite Concerns Over Major Changes

EPA plans to finalize the administration's controversial rule to define the Clean Water Act's (CWA) scope this year, according to agency Administrator Gina McCarthy, despite concerns from critics that potential changes the agency is said to be considering to the rule are so major that they warrant re-proposing the entire regulation. McCarthy told a Feb. 26 House Appropriations Committee interior panel hearing on EPA's fiscal year 2016 budget request that the agency is not planning revisions that rise to the...