Environmentalists Urge EPA To Scrap 'Illegal' Plan For Narrower CWA Rule

摘要

Environmentalists and public health groups are urging EPA to scrap its "flatly illegal" plan to repeal the Obama administration's Clean Water Act (CWA) jurisdiction rule and replace it with a policy much narrower in scope, arguing that EPA should instead use the 2015 rule as a "starting point" for any revisions to jurisdiction policy. "It is dispiriting to say this, but the Trump administration can't be trusted to protect America's waters," Jon Devine, a Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) staff attorney specializing in water issues, said during a Sept. 26 call hosted by EPA as the second part of a 10-week series of stakeholder outreach sessions designed to inform development of a new CWA rule.