Litigation Deluge Expected After Waters Rule Repeal (2)

The Trump administration’s repeal of a landmark Obama-era regulation on water pollution is official, and now the legal challenges are set to begin.

The bulk of the litigation is expected to come from environmental groups and Democrat-led states accusing the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers of improperly narrowing the scope of the Clean Water Act.

But the first case filed Oct. 22 comes from the right-leaning Pacific Legal Foundation. In a lawsuit filed on behalf of the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico, the group is ...