EPA is asking three federal district courts to delay by two weeks the resumption of litigation over a controversial Trump-era rule on state water quality certifications for federal permits, noting that state and environmental plaintiffs are still determining how the agency's announcement that it plans to revise the policy affects the lawsuits. "EPA has met and conferred with Plaintiffs regarding next steps for this litigation in light of EPA's recent Notice," the agency says in a June 4 motion to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in the consolidated casein re Clean Water Act Rulemaking. "Plaintiffs have not yet determined their position on those next steps. EPA therefore requests that the abeyance be continued an additional 14 days so that the parties can continue to meet and confer regarding next steps in this litigation." The agency filed identical June 4 motions with the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina in South Carolina Coastal Conservation League (SCCCL), et al. v. EPA and with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in Delaware Riverkeeper Network, et al. v. EPA.
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