Items Tagged with 'waters of the U.S.'

The Trump administration is making its first foray into the longstanding controversy over the meaning of “waters of the U.S.” in the Clean Water Act, issuing guidance Wednesday to align its policy with the Supreme Court’s Sackett decision.

Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency promised  at his confirmation hearing Thursday to work with farm-state senators on renewable fuel issues if confirmed as administrator, but also faced skepticism from Democrats who fear he won't be able to address climate change.

Federal agencies are leaving landowners in the dark about what they can legally do under the Clean Water Act without violating the law, representatives of agriculture and other industries told lawmakers Wednesday.

The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing tightened water discharge limits for some meat and poultry processing plants around the country.

EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers are scrapping the “significant nexus” standard to determine when waters or wetlands are covered by the Clean Water Act, as well as their definition of “adjacent wetlands,” to comply with the Supreme Court’s decision in Sackett v. EPA.

The House is approaching another partisan face-off, this time over funding the government for the next fiscal year, after Republicans narrowly won passage of a defense authorization bill last week.