Georgia’s attorney general and both its U.S. senators are cheering President Donald Trump for what they view as the beginning of the end of the Obama administration’s Waters of the United States regulations.
Georgia and other states have been litigating the regulations in federal court since WOTUS went into effect in 2015, joining cases pending in both the Eleventh and the Sixth Circuits of the U.S. Court of Appeals. The Environmental Protection Agency announced a rollback of the rule Tuesday while it works on a new policy. Trump directed the reversal with an executive order in February.
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