Today a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit stayed enforcement of the new Clean Water Rules (the “Rules’” governing activities involving the “Waters of the United States” pending resolution of several challenges to the Rules). Unlike the prior injunction from the North Dakota District Court, the Sixth Circuit prohibited the Army Corps of Engineers and the EPA from enforcing the Rules anywhere in the United States. The prior rules will remain in effect while enforcement of the new Rules is stayed.

It is likely that the Corps and EPA will seek a hearing before all of the judges of the Sixth Circuit and/or appeal the injunction to the U.S. Supreme Court. The opinion can be found here.