EPA Push To Ease CWA Rule Implementation Fails To Quell Calls For Delay

EPA is pledging to quickly release a suite of tools to ease implementation of its Clean Water Act (CWA) jurisdiction rule including a question-and-answer (Q&A) document and database of jurisdictional findings to resolve uncertainty, but the move is failing to quell calls from the rule's critics to postpone by many months its Aug. 28 effective date. In a July 30 joint memo , EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy and Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works Jo-Ellen Darcy say their...