Fairfax, Va. sue EPA over water rules

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Note: This article has been updated to include a comment from the Environmental Protection Agency, which was provided after the article was first published.

The Virginia Department of Transportation and Fairfax County on Thursday sued the Environmental Protection Agency over regulations so strict that they define water itself as a pollutant and would force state and local officials to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to clean it up.

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