Washington, March 4 -- Representative Hillary Scholten issued the following press release:
U.S. Representative Hillary Scholten (D-MI-03) published an article in the Harvard Law School Journal of Legislation on the necessity of strong, bipartisan federal protections for U.S. water resources. The piece, "The Retreat of Cooperative Federalism: Water Rights in a Fragmented Regulatory Era," argues that Congress must work together with states to maintain baseline environmental protections following decades of U.S. Supreme Court action to erode the Clean Water Act (CWA) of 1972, including the Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) decision.
"Protecting and preserving our nation's waters has always been a top priority of mine. In Mich...