Environmentalists Preview Legal Attacks On Narrow CWA Jurisdiction Rule

Environmentalists and Democrats are using their comments on EPA’s proposed narrower Clean Water Act (CWA) jurisdiction rule to preview the legal attacks they will make on any final version in guaranteed litigation, saying the rule has a host of procedural flaws, breaks with Supreme Court precedent, and exceeds the agency’s authority. In comments filed ahead of the April 15 deadline for public input on the agency’s proposal to narrow the law’s scope, the Trump administration’s opponents set out their key...