Supreme Court to weigh water transfer suit at Feb. 23 conference

February 16, 2018
The Supreme Court has put suits over EPA's Clean Water Act (CWA) rule exempting transfers between waterbodies from discharge permitting on the agenda for its Feb. 23 conference, where it could decide that day whether it will take up the challenges and potentially overturn the rule, as some states and environmentalists are seeking. If the justices do agree to review the challenges in New York, et al., v. EPA, et al., it would pose a test for how the...


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