Inhofe calls on Dems to back off support for EPA water rule

Published September 20, 2016 2:00pm ET



A top Senate Republican wants his Democratic colleagues to turn their back on an Environmental Protection Agency water regulation and commit to working on new legislation in light of a report he commissioned that found agency overreach in interpreting the new rule.

Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., released a new report on how the EPA and Army Corps of Engineers plan to interpret and exercise the Waters of the United States Rule, should it survive a court challenge.

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