CWA Rule Challenges Advance In Texas, Georgia With First Hearing Set

Federal courts in Texas and Georgia are moving quickly on states' and industry's bid for a new court order that would block enforcement of the 2015 Clean Water Act (CWA) jurisdiction rule, even after EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers delayed its implementation until 2020, setting up the first in a new round of tests for the Obama-era rule's legality. The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas has set a hearing for Feb. 22 on whether...