U.S. Supreme Court,
Environmental & Energy
Sep. 16, 2021
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A district court in Arizona recently directed the EPA and Army Corps to apply the pre-2015 standard for Clean Water Act jurisdiction, The agencies are applying the decision nationwide while they formulate a new definition of “waters of the United States.”
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced this month that they have halted implementation of the Trump administration's 2020 Navigable Waters Protection Rule and will interpret the term "waters of the United States" for the purposes of the Clean Water Act as "consistent with the pre-2015 regulatory regime until further notice." The agencies' announcement follows an Aug. 30 decision by the U.S. District Court for the District o...
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