the agency has beenworking hard to undothe Obama era establishment of the Waters of the U.S. (WOTUS) rule, which sought to clarify which source waters fall under federal jurisdiction. Trump has issued anexecutive orderlooking to rescind and replace the Clean Water Rule, which contains WOTUS....
Thus far, Ron Wotus is the only one to survive the managing change, and it's unclear where Curt Young, Rich Schu and Jose Alguacil will end up in 2020 (there's no indication any of them will be back), or if other longtime members of the organization's support staff will be replaced...
On 8 September 2023, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps; collectively “the agencies”) published a Final Rule [1] that amended the definition of “Waters of the United States” (WOTUS) to conform to the U.S. Supreme Court’s (“the...