Farmers Applaud Trump for Repealing EPA’s WOTUS Rule

breitbart.com ^ | 3/2/2017 | Joel B. Pollak

[rktman]

Farmers are applauding President Donald Trump’s executive order Tuesday that reverses the Environmental Protection Agency’s “Waters of the United States” (WOTUS) rule, which gave the agency virtually limitless authority to regulate water on private land.

Introduced under President Barack Obama, the WOTUS expanded the EPA’s interpretation of the Clean Water Act to include, as Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said, “almost any piece of land that gets wet and puddles.”

The Clean Water Act was intended to apply to “navigable” waters, but WOTUS interpreted that extremely broadly, so that it included waters with a “significant nexus” with navigable waters — in other words, taking in water that might eventually flow into navigable waterways.

[rktman]

Looks like mud puddles will be safe from govt interventions once again. So, will those that have had their property rendered worthless because of past epa wotus rulings be made whole now? Will they be reimbursed for the costs of trying to fight the epa?