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AGelbert · « **Reply #840 on:** September 07, 2021, 12:12:39 pm »

September 3, 2021

Federal Judge Vacates Major 🦖 Clean Water Act Regulation

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A Federal judge has vacated and remanded EPA's

2020 Navigable Waters Protection Rule, a regulation that narrowed the Agency's enforcement jurisdiction following legal challenges to a 2015 Clean Water Act rulemaking. ... ...

In the decision to vacate and remand the 2020 NWPR, the Arizona judge expressed concern that the rule failed to adequately protect the nation’s waters. The Rule’s “fundamental, substantive flaws,” the judge wrote, “cannot be cured without revising or replacing the NWPR’s definition of ‘Waters of the United States.’”

Full article:

https://www.lion.com/Lion-News/September-2021/Federal-Judge-Vacates-Trump-era-Clean-Water-Rule

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The decision is effective nationwide. It affects permit requirements for discharging pollutants to the water and permits

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