States Sue Feds Over Water Rule
May 6, 2020
Seventeen states are jointly suing the Trump administration over the Navigable Waters Protection Rule, adopted in January 2020 as the culmination of the president’s campaign vow to roll back the Obama-era Waters of the United States rule protecting waterways and wetlands. Writing in Issues as the new rule was under debate, a longtime environmental consultant detailed its likely detrimental effects on wetlands, and he laid out a set of principles to support “a policy framework that can assure stewardship of wetlands even in the face of changing political winds.”