DOJ says litigating CWA rule would compromise repeal process

March 12, 2018
The Trump administration is arguing that it cannot take a position on pending suits over the merits of the 2015 Clean Water Act (CWA) jurisdiction rule without compromising its ongoing effort to potentially scrap that policy and replace it with a narrower standard, urging a federal district court to keep a case over the rule's merits on hold during the repeal. In a March 8 filing with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, the Department of...


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