A bill introduced in the U.S. Senate aims to stop the Biden EPA from replacing the Navigable Waters Protection Rule with a new rule.
The legislation, sponsored by Virginia Senator Shelley Moore Capito and 31 colleagues would codify the Trump administration rule.
If replaced by the Biden administration, the lawmakers say it could be worse than the Obama-era Waters of the U.S. rule (WOTUS) by regulating ditches on private lands and converted croplands, inflicting “severe harm” on ag, construction and other areas of the economy.
