"EPA is working on a regulation to limit the agency's ability to nix water pollution permits.

Agency sources told E&E News the regulation will follow limits outlined in a June memo from former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt.

Under the Clean Water Act, the Army Corps of Engineers is the permitting agency for dredging and filling in waterways and wetlands, but Section 404(c) of the law grants EPA the ability to restrict or veto permits.

Until Pruitt, EPA policy did not explicitly prevent the agency from moving forward with vetoes before, during or after the permitting process."

Ariel Wittenberg and Dylan Brown reports for Greenwire August 17, 2018. [2]