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EPA restoring state and tribal power to protect waterways

by Matthew Daly
| May 30, 2021 12:06 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the latest reversal of a Trump-era policy, the Biden administration's Environmental Protection Agency is restoring a rule that grants states and Native American tribes authority to block pipelines and other energy projects that can pollute rivers, streams and other waterways.

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