District judge questions need to continue CWA rule lawsuits

February 22, 2018
A federal district court judge hearing two revived suits over the Obama-era Clean Water Act (CWA) jurisdiction rule is asking litigants why the suit should continue, questioning the need for the cases given the Trump EPA's two-year delay of the rule's implementation and its plan to repeal the regulation entirely. A Feb. 22 notice posted in two CWA jurisdiction rule cases filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma by Judge Claire E. Eagan says that...


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