Today, the Environmental Integrity Project released a report finding that in the first six months of the Trump administration, the federal government has collected 60% less in civil penalties in environmental enforcement actions than it did, on average, during the equivalent periods of the Clinton, George W. Bush and Obama presidencies. Between inauguration day and
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USEPA and Army Corps Propose Rule to Rollback the Waters of the United States (WOTUS) Rule
By Ann Zwick on
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Yesterday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposed a rule to rescind the 2015 Clean Water Rule and recodify the definition of “waters of the United States,” known as WOTUS, that existed before 2015. EPA and the Corps intend to re-evaluate and revise the WOTUS definition consistent with the…