Biden administration releases revised definition of WOTUS

December 30, 2022

Today, the Biden administration made final its revised definition of “navigable waters” or “Waters of the United States.” This, despite a comment letter filed earlier this year by Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) clients urging the administration to wait for the Supreme Court’s ruling in Sackett v. EPA. Sackett, argued b ...

Supreme Court takes WOTUS case

January 24, 2022

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EPA sued for relying on illegal rules following WOTUS repeal

October 22, 2019

Albuquerque, New Mexico; October 22, 2019: A lawsuit filed today on behalf of the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association challenges the Trump Administration’s decision to rely on old, unconstitutional rules in the wake of the 2015 Waters of the United States rule’s repeal. Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency announc ...

EPA ignores PLF advice on Congressional Review Act and WOTUS

February 15, 2018

Last year, following President Trump’s executive order directing EPA to rewrite its disastrous 2015 regulation which magically redefined millions of acres of dry land across the nation as federally protected navigable waterways, PLF offered EPA some advice, not only on how to rewrite the rule to make it conform to the limits of the Clean  ...

PLF testifies on WOTUS rule

November 30, 2017

One of the most contentious federal regulations published in recent decades is the ill-fated and  ill-legitimate “waters of the United States” or “WOTUS” rule that was issued by the Corps and EPA over the objections of Corps experts who argued the EPA misrepresented the science and misapplied the law. … ...

White House WOTUS update

July 25, 2017

We reported here that the Administration had proposed withdrawing the 2015 WOTUS rule as directed by Executive Order. And, that EPA would soon be issuing a new rule defining “waters of the United States” under the Clean Water Act. According to a recent statement by the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, the EPA will … ...