The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s updated Clean Water Act rules were blocked by a federal appeals court. A federal judge in North Dakota had stayed the rules, but that case applied to just 13 states. That order was extended to all states by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati. In a 2-1 ruling, the court stated, “A stay temporarily silences the whirlwind of confusion that springs from uncertainty about the requirements of the new rules and whether they will survive legal testing.”The EPA says the new rules apply to only 3 percent more waterways, but opponents claim
