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Friday, August 21, 2020
Trump Water Rule Now Being Contested In Court, Forcing NCBA To Defend Government Rule, Says NCBA's Scott Yager
The Navigable Waters Protection Rule, the Trump administration’s replacement for the Obama era WOTUS rule went into effect June 22 and the focus since has turned to the courtroom where so-called “blue” states are attempting to overturn the Trump rule.

Scott Yager, Chief Environmental Counsel of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, recently talked with me about that courtroom battle.

The Trump administration repealed WOTUS in September of 2019 and all this has now gone to a courtroom battle, Yager said.

I think there are about 13 different court challenges in blue states trying to knock it down in court, Yager said. If you can kill it in court then you cast doubt on its legal validation, he said.

It clouds the whole issue and that is the strategy being used by environmental activists in the blue states, Yager said.

The NCBA, along with other like-minded trade groups, are strategically intervening in these court cases to shore up the defense of the rule.
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