Energy Groups, States’ Bid to Revive Trump Water Rule Advances

The EPA must face an appeal by some Republican-led states and petroleum groups that want to revive a Trump-era rule limiting state and tribal efforts to stop water-polluting projects, but an order tossing the rule will remain in effect pending the appeal, the Ninth Circuit ruled.

The states and gas groups supporting the Clean Water Section 401 Certification Rule failed to show a “likelihood of irreparable harm to warrant the requested relief” of overturning a judge and temporarily reinstating the regulation, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said. The court didn’t elaborate as to why it denied ...