This Southern Environmental Law Center article discusses the Federal Court striking down the EPA attempt to gut the Clean Water Act.
A federal judge in South Carolina today struck down the administration’s effort to strip away crucial clean water protections from rivers, lakes, streams, and other waters that feed drinking-water sources for nearly 20 million people in the South and 117 million people across the country. Today’s decision follows a legal challenge filed by SELC in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina located in Charleston. The ruling ends the Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ suspension of clean water protections under the Clean Water Act, one of the nation’s bedrock environmental laws, and puts the Clean Water Rule back in effect for more than half of the country. The ruling does not apply to 24 states where other legal challenges are pending.