Plaintiff seeks limited appeal of preliminary WOTUS loss

July 9, 2024
A North Carolina landowner is seeking to appeal a federal court’s ruling rejecting his motion for a preliminary nationwide injunction against the Biden administration’s final “waters of the United States” (WOTUS) rule, which found that it “faithfully conforms” to the Supreme Court’s landmark Sackett decision. Plaintiff in the suit Robert White v. EPA, et al. filed a July 8 notice of appeal to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, notifying the court of...


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