Obama EPA Water Chief Sees Industry Win On Venue For CWA Rule Suits

Joel Beauvais, who served as EPA's de facto water chief at the end of the Obama administration, is suggesting in a new legal analysis that while Supreme Court justices appeared split on the issue of whether district or appellate courts should hear disputes over the Obama-era Clean Water Act (CWA) jurisdiction rule, their questioning overall seemed to favor industry and states that argue for hearing the suits first in district court. “Whatever the Supreme Court does will have important consequences,”...