Texas on Thursday quickly capitalized on a U.S. Supreme Court ruling curtailing federal pollution protections under a landmark environmental law to bolster its challenge to a Biden administration rule that would expand the law's scope.
The Supreme Court on Thursday curtailed the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to police millions of acres of wetlands, delivering another setback to the agency’s ability to combat pollution.
The Biden administration imposed Friday a rule expanding the definition of waterways that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has authority to regulate, a move that reverses a Trump-era change and seeks to overcome nearly a decade of challenges to EPA powers, including a pending Supreme Court case.