CWA Order Creates Massive Uncertainty On Trump EPA Jurisdiction Policy

President Donald Trump's executive order (EO) directing EPA to revise the Obama administration's controversial Clean Water Act (CWA) jurisdiction rule creates massive uncertainty over how the Trump EPA will determine the scope of the law while it works on a new rule and what will happen to pending suits over the existing policy. The Feb. 28 order all but guarantees that the Trump administration will seek to withdraw the Obama-era rule and replace it with one based on a narrower...