Economists Urge Biden To ‘Correct’ Flaws In Trump WOTUS Rule Analysis

Environmental economists are outlining several concerns with the Trump administration’s economic analysis to support its narrowed definition of waters of the United States (WOTUS), criticisms that they hope will aid the incoming Biden administration in “correcting” the rule and other Trump policies that used similar analyses. The findings in the new report from the External Environmental Economics Advisory Committee (E-EEAC) could help the incoming Biden administration “correct structural weaknesses in this rule as well as other important EPA policies,” JR...