Senate Republicans Request Answers on EPA’s Sackett Comments

Link to Press Release Link to Floor Speech: Inhofe Highlights Increasing Concern with EPA Water Overreach Link to Letter Washington, D.C. - Sixteen Senate Republicans joined a letter last week, led by Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, asking Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson to clarify statements made by the Director of EPA's Water Enforcement Division, Mark Pollins, who appeared to dismiss the Supreme Court's reining in of the agency in Sackett vs. EPA saying that it will have little effect on how EPA plans to enforce the law going forward. As Inside EPA reported, Pollins said, "What's available after Sackett? Pretty much everything that was available before Sackett. Internally, it's same old, same old."