Source: Don Jenkins, CAPITAL PRESS, 11/27/18


A federal judge in Washington on Monday reinstated the Obama administration’s Clean Water Rule nationwide, a ruling that conflicts with other federal court orders that bar enforcing the rule in most states, including Idaho. Western Washington District Judge John Coughenour wrote that the Trump administration made a serious procedural error by shelving the rule and going back to the pre-2015 definition of Waters of the United States.

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