E.P.A. Moves to Rescind Contested Water Pollution Regulation
President Trump signed an executive order in February directing Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection
Agency, to begin the legal process for rolling back the water rule, calling it “one of the worst examples of federal regulation
The rule, known as Waters of the United States, or Wotus, had extended existing federal protections of large bodies of water, such as the Chesapeake Bay and Puget Sound, to smaller bodies
that flow into them, such as rivers, small waterways and wetlands.
By CORAL DAVENPORTJUNE 27, 2017
The Trump administration on Tuesday took a major legal step toward repealing a bitterly contested Obama-era
regulation designed to limit pollution in about 60 percent of the nation’s bodies of water.
