EPA water office nominee Radhika Fox reiterated her pledge to work with states and industry groups on a new "waters of the United States" (WOTUS) rule at her Senate confirmation hearing, drawing praise from Republicans who raised no objection to her confirmation even as they warned her against reviving the Obama-era water policy. WOTUS was the most common subject lawmakers raised in their questions to Fox during the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee's May 12 hearing, emphasizing the deep and long-running partisan divide over which waters should be subject to the Clean Water Act (CWA) that produced drastically different rules on the subject in the Obama and Trump administrations.
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