Groups Drop Bid For CWA Rule Injunction After Court's Standing Query

Environmentalists are dropping their early appeal of a district court order that blocked enforcement of the Obama administration's Clean Water Act (CWA) jurisdiction rule in 11 mostly southern states, signaling that they will not push to expand the list of 26 other states that are now subject to the revived rule after a judge scrapped EPA's delay. National Wildlife Federation and One Hundred Miles, a Georgia group, had jointly appealed the lower court's order to the U.S. Court of Appeals...