EPA Touts Deference To States In Rule To Repeal CWA Jurisdiction Policy

June 27, 2017
EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers' proposed rule to repeal the Obama administration's Clean Water Act (CWA) jurisdiction policy and reinstate George W. Bush-era standards for determining the law's scope are signaling that they will invoke deference to states' authority over waters in a pending rule to create a new jurisdiction standard. The proposed rule , which EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt signed June 27 ahead of its upcoming publication in the Federal Register , would repeal the Obama administration's...


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