Republican leaders in the House of Representatives have voiced their concerns regarding the Biden administration’s intent to reverse the Trump administration’s Navigable Waters Protection Rule.
The new administration plans to revise the definition of waters of the U.S. (WOTUS) under the Clean Water Act. The Republican members sent a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan and Acting Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works Jaime Pinkham, expressing their concern with the revision.
“We are gravely concerned that the Agencies will let the flawed Obama WOTUS rule dictate the scope and content of any new rule the Agencies might now promulgate,” the letter read. “The Agencies must not let institutional capture predetermine the outcome of a rulemaking, which we fear is going to happen here.”
