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The rule, published by the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement on December 20, 2016 with just 31 days left in the Obama Administration's term of office, regulated mountaintop removal mining sites. [45] [46] [47] In January 2018 EPA formally suspended the 2015 WOTUS regulation and announced plans to issue a new version later in ...
Under the CWA, EPA and the Corps, along with the states, serve as co-regulators of the nation’s waters. H.R. 5078 would prohibit the agencies from developing, finalizing, adopting, implementing, or enforcing the following: [1] A proposed rule published in the Federal Register on April 21, 2014, that defines the scope of waters protected by ...
The administration repealed the Clean Water Rule and rewrote the EPA's pollution-control policies—including policies on chemicals known to be serious health risks—particularly benefiting the chemicals industry, [16] [17] A 2018 analysis reported that the Trump administration's rollbacks and proposed reversals of environmental rules would ...
Environmental nonprofits are gearing up to challenge some of the actions President Donald Trump has issued since taking office. There is litigation coming for the majority of the executive orders ...
Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency, 598 U.S. 651 (2023), also known as Sackett II (to distinguish it from the 2012 case), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that only wetlands and permanent bodies of water with a "continuous surface connection" to "traditional interstate navigable waters" are covered by the Clean Water Act.
The EPA rule was intended to provide a national solution to the problem of ozone pollution, but challengers said it relied on the assumption that all 23 states targeted by the rule would participate.
The EPA has lost two significant cases at the Supreme Court in recent years. In 2022, the court limited the ability of the Environmental Protection Agency to use the Clean Air Act to combat ...
Congress then passed a joint resolution under the Congressional Review Act overturning the WOTUS rule, [84] but President Barack Obama vetoed the measure. [85] On February 28, 2017, President Donald Trump signed documents directing EPA and USACE to review and rewrite the Obama administration's "Clean Water Rule," which would clarify the WOTUS ...