Fed court
places WOTUS on hold nationwide, Friday was not a good day for the
Obama EPA. 10/9/15, cfact.org
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals
expanded the stay on the Administration’s land-grabbing water rule
beyond the states that appealed, to the entire nation.
The pushback against regulatory
overreach is on!
As Reuters reports, “the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit granted a
nationwide stay against the so-called Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule,
which is intended to clarify which bodies of water are covered by the Clean
Water Act. The rule was finalized by the Environmental Protection Agency and
the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in May but still faces political and legal
opposition.
The appellate court said that the 18
states challenging the new standards were unlikely to face immediate
irreparable harm from the rule, but there was also no evidence that the
nation’s waters would suffer “imminent injury” if the regulation was put on
hold.”
When a Wyoming judge granted a stay
to 13 states last month, EPA was defiant and vowed to press on. This
ruling appears to have knocked the fight out of EPA, at least for now.
Reuters further reports that, “EPA said it respected the court’s decision to
allow more consideration of the issues raised by the case.”
CFACT been working diligently on
this issue for some time. We have substantial coverage at CFACT.org.
It is the job of the courts to rein
in the bureaucracy when it goes too far. Let’s hope the end result will
be the WOTUS rule struck down and a win for state and individual property
rights.
Is our law-stretching bureaucracy
now under adult supervision?
http://www.cfact.org/2015/10/09/fed-court-places-wotus-on-hold-nationwide/
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