10th Circuit Vacates Injunction Against Trump-Era Clean Water Rule

Mealey's (March 9, 2021, 8:37 AM EST) -- DENVER — The 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on March 2 vacated a federal district court’s preliminary injunction against enforcement of the Navigable Waters Protection Rule:  Definition of Waters of the United States, 85 Fed. Reg. 22,250, Apr. 21, 2020, (the 2020 Rule pr NWPR), saying the lower court abused its discretion by finding that the Trump administration’s version of the Clean Water Rule threatened irreparable harm to the State of Colorado....