The Trump administration today finalized its efforts to repeal a 2015 regulation clarifying which wetlands and waterways are protected under the Clean Water Act. EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler and Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works R.D. James signed the new rule at the National Association of Manufacturers this afternoon. The Obama-era Clean Water Rule was decried by members of the energy, agriculture and development industries for expanding the definition of "waters of the United States," or WOTUS, though environmentalists celebrated it as a science-based regulation clarifying when wetlands and streams are federally regulated.
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