Trump Waters Rule to Hit Major Problems in Court, Ex-Feds Say

Former federal regulators say there’s a clear path for opponents of the Trump administration’s new water pollution rule to get a court to throw it out.

The Trump administration’s new rule contains very little scientific justification for why the change from the Obama rule needed to be made, and in some cases it blatantly disregards prior court rulings on this issue, according to veteran environmental regulators.

“The biggest problem they’ve got is that there’s no court of appeal in the country that has this interpretation of the Clean Water Act,” said Mark A. Ryan, a former EPA attorney for 24 ...