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The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider a case about the reach of a federal clean-water law.
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Read More »Big winners in Trump rollback of wetlands rules? Developers
President Donald Trump said on Monday that farmers would be the big winners from the administration's proposed rollback of federal protections for wetlands and waterways across the country.
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Read More »Trump administration proposing rollback of water rules (UPDATE)
The Trump administration is moving to withdraw federal protections for countless waterways and wetlands across the country, making good on President Donald Trump's campaign pledge to weaken landmark water rules long resented by some developers, farmers and oil, gas and mining executives.
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Read More »Schimel wants review of South Carolina pollution ruling
Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel has joined 18 other GOP attorneys general in asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a ruling finding that Clean Water Act protections extend to non-point pollution.
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Read More »EPA’s Stepp recuses herself from Wisconsin review
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Regional Administrator Cathy Stepp has recused herself from a Wisconsin compliance review.
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Read More »Federal agencies begin process to rescind water rule
The Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers have started a process aimed at ending a federal regulation — opposed by some small-business groups — that sought to expand government jurisdiction over bodies of water.
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Read More »Republican state lawmakers want to relax phosphorous rules
More than two dozen Republican state lawmakers are asking federal lawmakers to loosen Wisconsin's strict water pollution standards.
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Read More »Water Works federal lawsuit trial delayed to June 2017
The lawsuit filed by the Des Moines Water Works in federal court against several upstream agriculture drainage districts has been delayed by nearly a year.
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Read More »New EPA water rules take effect
New federal rules to protect smaller streams, tributaries and wetlands took effect on Friday — but only in some states, including Wisconsin.
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Read More »Wisconsin joins lawsuit to fight new water rule
Wisconsin has joined eight other states in a lawsuit protesting a new rule from the EPA and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
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