WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Attorneys general push back against court decision to reinstate Obama-era water rule

A group of state attorneys general are pushing back against a federal court decision last week reinstating the controversial Obama-era Waters of the U.S. rule.
 
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, joined by the attorneys general from Louisiana and Mississippi, announced Thursday that they filed a motion in the District Court for the Southern District of Texas, asking for a nationwide injunction against enforcement of the WOTUS rule, as it is known.
 
The motion framed the rule as an illegal overreach by the Obama administration’s Environmental Protection Agency.
 
The district court of South Carolina ordered the Trump EPA last week to reverse its effort to delay the water rule while the agency works on a replacement.
 
“The WOTUS rule infringes on the states’ ability to regulate their own natural resources, including ponds, puddles and streams on private property, and poses a substantial burden to property owners whose land would be subject to new EPA regulations,” Paxton said in a statement. “We’re asking the district court to take immediate action to prevent enforcement of the unlawful rule.”

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