One of the more egregious Obama regulations was WOTUS - it is being dialed back. From Beef Magazine:
Georgia court hands WOTUS another setback
The controversial Waters of the U.S. rule (WOTUS), implemented in 2015 by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), received another setback when a U.S. District Court in Georgia issued a preliminary injunction that prevents the rule from being implemented in 13 states.
The Georgia injunction is the second time a federal court has ruled against WOTUS. The first decision came shortly after WOTUS came into effect. A North Dakota court issued an injunction in 2015 that prevented the rule from being implemented in 11 states. With those two court rulings in place, nearly half the country—24 states—are protected from WOTUS.
A bit more - the scope of WOTUS
Putting WOTUS in rough terms, the rule means that if a duck thinks it can land on it, any puddle is considered navigable and falls under jurisdiction of the federal government. My house in the suburbs of Denver has a small pond in the back yard that’s probably 4 or 5 feet across. Ducks have landed on it. That means, in effect, should WOTUS come into play, my back yard becomes property of the federal government.
That may be stretching things, but fortunately for me, you and everyone else, this horrendous Obama-era blunder likely will never be enforced.
A perfect example of Federal Government overreach - the Tenth Amendment should have kicked in on this one:
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
Short, sweet and to the point.
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