House Passes Measure to Block Obama’s EPA on Clean-Water Rule
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The Obama administration’s plan to expand protections for waterways and keep them free of pollutants would be blocked by a measure the U.S. House passed on Tuesday.
Farmers, ranchers, builders and manufacturers backed the effort in the Republican-led House to halt the Environmental Protection Agency’s work on the new standards, and begin a lengthy process to rework the plan.