• Pruitt’s plan to reform ‘sue and settle’
  October 17, 2017 - A pledge to end EPA’s past approach to reaching out-of-court settlements with environmental groups that had filed lawsuits against the Agency was one of the lesser-known but no less firmly held commitments Scott Pruitt carried with him when he became administrator.
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• AGs will fight CPP repeal
  October 16, 2017 - EPA’s proposed repeal of the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan (CPP) is only part of Act 1 of what will be a historic confrontation over the legality of the CPP that will be waged between the plan’s supporters and the Trump administration, which will be aided and abetted by many industry associations.
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• Supreme Court fields arguments on WOTUS jurisdiction
  October 13, 2017 - The issue of judicial efficiency was raised by Chief Justice John Roberts in oral arguments in the U.S. Supreme Court in a case that asks whether U.S. District Courts or U.S. Appeals Courts should hear challenges to the federal Clean Water Rule (CWR, also known as WOTUS for waters of the United States).
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