Bipartisan Group Backs EPA On Narrowing CWA Reviews In Permit Deal

The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) appears to be backing the Trump EPA’s plan to narrow states’ Clean Water Act (CWA) section 401 reviews of federal projects, suggesting it as one of several options to include in a broader legislative deal to expedite a range of environmental permitting requirements. “Despite CWA’s importance to ensuring Americans have clean water, some of the law’s provisions have become major points of friction in the permitting of linear infrastructure and industrial facilities, often in cases...