Today, Chairman Rob Bishop (UT-01) responded to the Obama Administration’s finalization of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule.
 
“The Obama Administration’s latest act of executive defiance-by-fiat, the WOTUS rule, expands the EPA into a regulatory behemoth that would have been unrecognizable by the founders of the Clean Water Act. It gives the agency power to bully states, Congress, and local and private water users. The implications of this expanded authority on our nation’s precious water resources are disturbing, especially as the drought and the bureaucratic mess that worsens its effects are felt throughout the West. This rule severely undermines the states’ rightful primacy in water management and the Committee on Natural Resources will be fighting against its implementation.”