In compliance with a 2021 Presidential Executive Order entitled "Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis".
This Fifth Circuit decision was only the latest example of Federal Judges stepping into the vacuum created by Congress's refusal to refresh the more than half century old Clean Water Act.
Today five Justices of the United States Supreme Court reversed a California Federal District Court Judge's decision vacating a Clean Water Act rule enacted by the Trump Administration EPA.
Lara Beaven of Inside EPA reports on the standoff between the State of Florida and the United States Environmental Protection Agency over the "current definition".