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Georgia lawmakers, industry cheer water rule reversal
Chattahoochee Riverkeeper says rule needed to protect Lanier
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Flat Creek is shown at Dorsey Street.
Georgia lawmakers are praising the Trump administration for reversing course on an update to the Clean Water Act that critics have blasted as federal overreach. The Obama-era Waters of the United States regulation would have allowed federal oversight on a swath of private and state waters — from large wetlands down to ditches. The rule attracted intense opposition from Republican lawmakers and lawsuits from states, including a suit filed by then-Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt — now the head of the Environmental Protection Agency.