Top House Democrats are probing the Army Corps' implementation of the Trump administration's Waters of the U.S., or WOTUS, rule and how companies are securing exemptions to federal oversight. House Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) and Rep. Grace Napolitano (D-Calif.), who chairs the panel's Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment, in a letter to R.D. James, the Army's assistant secretary for civil works, blasted the rule and asked for data underpinning the Army Corps' decisions. The agency, they wrote, is "leading the Trump administration's unconscionable efforts to remove decades-old protections over our nation's waters and wetlands through implementation of the Dirty Water Rule - which is, without question, the single-largest rollback of clean water protections in history."
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