The scope of the Clean Water Act has been the subject of dispute beginning with its enactment in 1972. After three seminal and other Supreme Court decisions, hundreds of appellate and district ...

He suggested that the term "waters of the United States" should include only: 1. Those waters that are navigable-in-fact and currently used or susceptible to use in interstate or foreign commerce.

NWP Rule narrows the scope of CWA jurisdiction by redefining 'navigable waters' On June 22, 2020, the NWP Rule, adopting a new, more narrow definition for "waters of the United States," became ...

This week is going to be remembered for another definition of the Waters of the United States, commonly known as WOTUS, being struck down by a federal court. In this case, the U.S. District Court ...

In 1974, Army Corps and EPA came up with different definitions for "waters of the United States," with the corps arguing the Refuse Act still limited the agency’s jurisdiction to "navigable ...

In 2015, the Environmental Protection Agency issued a new Clean Water Rule, a.k.a. Waters of the U.S. (WOTUS) rules defining the jurisdiction of the agency over rivers, lakes, creeks, estuaries ...

To protect navigable waters, ... “Clean Water Rule: Definition of ‘Waters of the United States,’” Federal Register 80, no. 124 (June 29, 2015): 37054–127, https: ...

The Trump administration published this spring its new definition of “navigable waters” (also known as “waters of the United States”) under the Clean Water Act.

The new definition would follow the Supreme Court ruling, limiting “Waters of the United States” to wetlands and water bodies connected to traditional interstate navigable waters.

On Jan. 23 at an event at the National Association of Home Builders International Builders’ Show in Las Vegas, EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler and Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil ...