Judge blocks EPA rule as federal power grab over state waters [UPDATED]

Screen Shot 2015-08-28 at 8.32.57 AMBy Stephen Dinan | The Washington Times

President Obama’s push to extend the EPA’s regulatory hand to ditches and small streams to enforce clean water rules was blocked Thursday by a federal judge, who said the administration had overstepped its bounds in trying yet another end run around Congress.

Judge Ralph R. Erickson called the Environmental Protection Agency’s attempt “inexplicable, arbitrary and devoid of a reasoned process,” and issued an injunction preventing the EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from claiming oversight of millions of acres of land that contain small bodies of water.

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Related: Arizona Republicans, real estate industry hail temporary stop to Obama, EPA water rule

 

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