Dave Dickey New WOTUS proposal not a long-term solution to Clean Water Act ambiguities The EPA’s latest plan to better define the Waters of the US is a bandage for bigger systemic problems at the federal level. By Dave Dickey, Columnist / 8 Dec 2025
Environment Under new EPA rule, protections would dry up for wetlands across the Mississippi River basin The new rule, proposed Nov. 17, is the latest in a convoluted, decades-long fight over which streams and wetlands qualify as “Waters of the United States” and thus are regulated by the federal government under the Clean Water Act. By Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk / 21 Nov 2025
