Environmentalists Claim EPA Plan For Narrow CWA Rule Likely Unlawful

December 13, 2017
Environmental groups are warning EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers that the administration's plan to craft a replacement rule on the Clean Water Act's (CWA) scope that uses a narrow jurisdiction test crafted by the late Justice Antonin Scalia would likely be struck down by courts that have long rejected use of Scalia's test. In written comments that EPA and the Corps sought in order to inform their work on a new CWA rule, environmental groups are unified in...


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