Source: Hannah Northey, EE NEWS, 1/25/22


The Supreme Court decision yesterday to weigh in on the Clean Water Act’s scope triggered political wrangling over whether EPA should halt its ongoing rulemaking to define what constitutes “waters of the U.S.,” or WOTUS. On one side, House Republicans are calling on EPA to immediately stop its ongoing work to craft new regulations to address which waters fall under federal jurisdiction. Pushing back are Democrats, who say the Biden administration must move forward to protect vulnerable waters and front-line communities and provide a new, stricter definition of what constitutes WOTUS.

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