Plaintiffs ask Texas judge to throw out Obama-era WOTUS

摘要

Opponents of the Obama-era Clean Water Rule are asking a federal judge in Texas to throw it out. Judge George Hanks Jr., of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, sided with three states and a coalition of agriculture and industry groups this spring saying the 2015 regulation broke the law. But he remanded the issue to EPA, which is currently working with the Army Corps of Engineers to repeal and replace the Clean Water Rule (Greenwire, May 29).