THE WASHINGTON TIMES: Top White House officials say they’re rolling back administrative state
Last month, the Trump administration rolled back the birth-control mandate. Scott Pruitt, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, said the Waters of the United States rule will suffer a similar fate. “We’re providing regulatory clarity there,” Mr. Pruitt said at the conference Friday. “Two-step process, actually: We’re withdrawing the deficient rule from 2015. That process is ongoing. In fact, it’s almost complete. And then we’ll have a substitute definition sometime in 2018, and that definition will hew to the case law and the text and I believe the intent and purpose of the Clean Water Act with respect to what a water of the United States is going forward.”
