{"id":1657,"date":"2015-10-13T10:21:58","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T14:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.granitestatefutures.org\/?p=1657"},"modified":"2015-10-13T10:21:58","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T14:21:58","slug":"31-states-file-suit-against-epa-water-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/2015\/10\/13\/31-states-file-suit-against-epa-water-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"31 States File Suit Against EPA Water Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have to ask, why isn&#8217;t New Hampshire part of this lawsuit?<\/p>\n<p><em>(CN) &#8211; The Sixth Circuit on Friday stayed a new Environmental Protection Agency rule defining &#8220;Waters of the United States&#8221; that 31 states accuse of trampling their sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p>     Attorneys general from 31 states asked the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers in July to delay implementation of a Clean Water Act rule for at least nine months for judicial review.<\/p>\n<p>     The rule defines &#8220;Waters of the United States&#8221; under the Clean Water Act. The states claim it asserts federal jurisdiction over streams, wetlands and other water bodies previously considered to be under their jurisdiction.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"  http:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/2015\/10\/09\/6th-circuit-stays-new-epa-clean-water-rule.htm\" title=\"Sixth Circuit Stays New EPA Water Rule\" target=\"_blank\">Sixth Circuit Stays New EPA Water Rule<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have to ask, why isn&#8217;t New Hampshire part of this lawsuit? (CN) &#8211; The Sixth Circuit on Friday stayed a new Environmental Protection Agency rule defining &#8220;Waters of the United States&#8221; that 31 states accuse of trampling their sovereignty. Attorneys general from 31 states asked the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}