The Biden administration on Tuesday weakened a rule regulating pollution of waterways to conform with a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that limited the regulatory reach of the Environmental Protection Agency.
to overturn a lower court's ruling against a couple in Idaho, Chantell and Michael Sackett, that had upheld the EPA's determination that their property near a lake contained wetlands protected by the Clean Water Act of 1972.
The EPA and the U.S. Department of the Army Corps of Engineers issued a final rule on Tuesday amending a standard it issued in January that revised the definition of which water bodies constituted "waters of the United States" under the 1972 Clean Water Act. Many farmers and landowners had slammed the broad interpretation, saying the EPA had overreached its powers.
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