April 6 (UPI) -- President Joe Biden on Thursday issued his second veto since his inauguration, striking down a congressional effort to undo his administration's new water regulations.
In January, the Biden administration published revised definitions of "Waters of the United States" in the federal register, which Environmental Protection Agency officials said "provides clear rules of the road" for the advancement of infrastructure projects, economic investment, and agricultural activities.
Majorities from both chambers of Congress had voted last month to roll back those new rules with support from four Senate Democrats and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, an independent from Arizona who caucuses with Democrats, according to a news release from Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va.
"I just vetoed a bill that attempted to block our administration from protecting our nation's waterways -- a resource millions of Americans depend on -- from destruction and pollution," Biden said in a tweet Thursday.
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