Navigable Waters Protection Rule
Remanded and Vacated: U.S. Navigable Waters Protection Rule
SWS Membership Benefits On August 30, 2021, a judge from the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona remanded and vacated the Trump Administration’s Navigable Waters Protection Rule (NWPR), the rule that replaced the 2015 Clean Water Rule, and that significantly reduced the jurisdiction of the Clean Water Act by redefining Waters of the…
Read MoreSWS in Politico: Trump water rule faces first test
SWS Membership Benefits Read the recent article on Politico. “EPA’s rewritten Waters of the U.S. rule gets its first big day in court today with a hearing before a federal judge in San Francisco on blue states’ request for a preliminary injunction — marking the first of several challenges working their way through the district courts.…
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