Senate GOP seeks to codify Trump-era CWA 401 rule after vacatur

Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW) Ranking Member Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) and her GOP committee colleagues have introduced legislation to codify the Trump-era rule governing state review of the water quality impacts of federally permitted projects after a federal court vacated the measure. The bill , introduced Nov. 30, is needed because the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California vacated and remanded the Trump-era Clean Water Act (CWA) section 401 rule Oct. 22, a fact...