WOTUS rule resurrected by judge

Enforcement of the 2015 WOTUS rule is back for some states, but not for all.

The Trump administration suspended the Obama-era rule to allow the EPA and Army Corps of Engineers to rewrite it, but South Carolina U.S. District Judge David Norton says federal agencies didn’t follow the public-comment requirements of the Administrative Procedures Act when they suspended WOTUS earlier this year.

Norton’s ruling is nationwide but does not have a nationwide impact because of other U.S.

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