WOTUS

Occasionally, The Press Editorial Board looks at the good, bad and ugly news that recently made headlines throughout our region and state.

A U.S. senator from North Dakota is urging colleagues to override a presidential veto of a congressional resolution of disapproval over a federal water rule. Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., spoke on the Senate floor Thursday, asking other members to overturn President Barack Obama’s veto...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The U.S. Senate on Wednesday passed a resolution to do away with the controversial Waters of the U.S. rule. But opponents of the legislation still need to overcome a presidential veto, which they say they're unlikely to do. WOTUS, as it's commonly known, would...

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Senate on Tuesday afternoon rejected an attempt to move forward with the debate on a bill that would block implementation of the controversial Waters of the U.S. rule. A wide range of farm groups oppose WOTUS, under which the Environmental Protection Agency...

WASHINGTON -- A U.S. court on Friday issued an order temporarily blocking the implementation of a federal water rule across the country, the latest in a series of legal setbacks for Obama administration environmental regulations.

WASHINGTON -- A U.S. court on Friday issued an order temporarily blocking the implementation of a federal water rule across the country, expanding on a prior injunction from a separate court that applied only to certain states. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit granted...

BISMARCK – A federal judge on Friday ruled that his order last week blocking a new federal clean-water rule from taking effect doesn’t apply nationwide but only to North Dakota and the dozen other states involved in the lawsuit, citing “competing sovereign interests and...

BISMARCK – A judge is looking to settle a dispute over whether his ruling Thursday that blocked a new federal clean-water rule from taking effect Friday applies nationwide or only to North Dakota and the dozen other states that successfully moved to stop the rule.

CARRINGTON — North Dakota, along with 12 other states, recently filed a request to stop the Waters of the U.S. rule from taking effect at the end of August.