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... an alliance of various corporate trade groups dedicated to weakening the WOTUS definition, whose members span industries ranging from fossil fuels and mining to farming and real estate.

Since 2019 alone, the WAC has spent a total of $260,000 lobbying on one thing and one thing only: "waters of U.S. rulemaking," or, as it put it in one filing, "federal legislative and administrative developments concerning the scope of federal regulatory authority over water bodies."

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