“Environmental groups launched their legal assault on the Trump administration’s Clean Water Act rule today, filing a lawsuit that claims it would have “devastating consequences on water quality across the country.”
The Southern Environmental Law Center also led a challenge in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina.
The law center is representing American Rivers, Charleston Waterkeeper, Chattahoochee Riverkeeper, Clean Water Action, Defenders of Wildlife, Environment America, Friends of the Rappahannock, the James River Association, the National Wildlife Federation, the North Carolina Coastal Federation, the North Carolina Wildlife Federation, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, the Roanoke River Basin Association and the South Carolina Coastal Conservation League in its challenge.”
