Rule will restore protections to the nation’s streams and wetlands
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 25, 2014. Today the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed a ruleto restore long-standing Clean Water Act protections to streams and many wetlands across the country. These protections, which stood for decades since Congress passed the Clean Water Act in 1972, were dismantled in the last decade by two Supreme Court decisions that created confusion about how to interpret which water bodies should…
