EPA finalizes repeal of controversial Obama-era rule defining “Waters of the United States” Last week marked a major win for the rule of law, property rights, and the environment: the Trump administration finalized its repeal of President Barack Obama’s infamous 2015...
At the same time as the Trump administration is pushing forward on its deregulatory agenda and its efforts to improve the Endangered Species Act (ESA), the Supreme Court is poised to hear a landmark case on the designation of critical habitat under the ESA that could...
EPA’s proposed rule could have serious consequences to private landowners Members of the House Committee on Agriculture asserted that the Administration has acted on its own, without input from the states and stakeholders, to broaden the scope of the CWA, threatening...
WASHINGTON, June 26, 2015 – The Obama administration’s new definition of the “waters of the United States” regulated by the Clean Water Act will be formally published on Monday and will take effect Aug. 28. The administration publicly released the final...
WASHINGTON, July 30, 2015 – Internal documents released by a House committee show the Army Corps of Engineers questioning the legal and technical basis for the Obama administration’s Clean Water Act rule just weeks before its release. An April 27...
July 29, 2015—On July 27, Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, sent a letter to Jo-Ellen Darcy, assistant secretary of the Army for Civil Works, requesting confirmation of factual statements made in internal Army...
