2019 Clean Water repeal was superseded by replacement rules and a narrower Supreme Court test
Reporting and findings
- reported
Associated Press reported that the Biden administration's 2023 WOTUS rule repealed the Trump-era replacement and expanded some protections, while ongoing litigation and the Supreme Court's later Sackett decision changed the operative federal test; the 2019 repeal is therefore historical lineage, not a complete statement of current coverage.
- Associated Press: Idaho joins Texas lawsuit over new federal clean-water rulesTrump-rule replacement, 2023 federal rule, and pending Supreme Court context
- documented
On 2019-10-22, the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency and Army published a final rule repealing the 2015 definition of “waters of the United States” and recodifying the prior regulatory text.
Corrects claim:batch-200:wotus-repeal-2019- United States Environmental Protection Agency: 2019 Repeal RuleOperative text of the cited action
Summary and current status
The 2019 action restored pre-2015 text, followed by Trump's 2020 Navigable Waters rule. That replacement was vacated; a Biden rule and the Supreme Court's Sackett decision then changed the governing test again.
2019 repeal no longer governs alone; post-Sackett federal coverage varies by rule and jurisdiction.
People and organizations
- 2019 Waters of the United States repeal ruleexecutive action under legal and impact review
- Donald J. Trumppresident who issued the action
Relationships in this file
- Donald J. Trumpled administration that repealed water rule2019 Waters of the United States repeal rule