Florida seeks appellate stay on 404 program’s vacatur

Florida is urging a federal appeals court to quickly stay a lower court ruling vacating EPA’s approval of the state’s Clean Water Act (CWA) section 404 permitting program, saying the decision is likely to be reversed and imposes irreparable injury by placing Florida projects in “indefinite regulatory limbo.” Florida filed an April 25 motion to stay to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in its appeal of Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), et al., v....