Industry Groups Defend Bid To Intervene In State-Led WOTUS Challenge

Industry groups are defending what they say is their right to intervene on behalf of GOP states in their lawsuit over the Biden administration’s new waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule even as they pursue their own litigation in another court, arguing their effort to block the rule’s nationwide implementation justifies their intervention. The business groups, which include the American Farm Bureau Federation, wrote in a March 8 brief that they should be allowed to join West Virginia, et...