Industry likes the idea of outsourcing new WOTUS rules

President Trump has ordered replacement of the Waters of the United States rule, widely opposed in farm country, and Politico says industry groups allied with EPA administrator Scott Pruitt have an idea who should write the replacement: private lawyers. Such a privatization of the rule-making process “would be almost unheard of” though probably legal. “It would… » Read More

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