Source: EE NEWS, 8/31/21


The Biden administration may get some breathing room after a federal court ruling in Arizona yesterday effectively wiped out a controversial Trump-era Clean Water Act rule that pulled back federal protection for streams and wetlands across the country. Judge Rosemary Márquez of the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona ruled the Trump administration’s Navigable Waters Protection Rule (NWPR) was too flawed to keep in place (Greenwire, Aug. 30). That decision effectively scraps the Trump-era rule across the nation, rolling back one of the prior administration’s biggest and most controversial regulatory wins for developers and farmers.

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