Competing legal filings in myriad suits over the Obama EPA's Clean Water Act (CWA) jurisdiction rule are underscoring confusion over the rule's status, with some states asking a federal district judge to quickly block the rule and claiming EPA has implicitly "conceded" it is unlawful, while another judge is advancing two separate cases aiming to reinstate the 2015 policy.The latest filings in the wide-ranging litigation over the CWA's definition of "waters of the United States" (WOTUS) tee up competing arguments over whether the rule should be brought back into force, as environmentalists and Democratic states seek, or stayed indefinitely as GOP states argue is appropriate - and with both sides seeking quick decisions in their favor.
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机译：有关奥巴马EPA的《清洁水法》（CWA）管辖权规则的各种诉讼中的竞争性法律文件突显了对该规则状态的困惑，一些州要求联邦地方法院法官迅速阻止该规则，并声称EPA暗中“让步了”是非法的，而另一位法官正在审理旨在恢复2015年政策的两个单独案件。 r n有关CWA对“美国水域”（WOTUS）的定义的广泛诉讼中的最新文件为竞争提供了条件关于该规则是否应像环保主义者和民主国家所寻求的那样重新生效，还是如共和党国家所认为的那样无限期地保留下去的争论，而双方都在寻求有利于他们的迅速决定。
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