The Environmental Pro­­tection Agency (EPA) finally released its new "clean water" rule and actually managed to make it worse than we expected.

Despite an unprecedented marketing campaign by the EPA, the proposed rule was fiercely opposed by the vast majority of state and local governments, businesses and groups representing almost every part of the American economy — including farmers and ranchers. We called on the EPA to ditch the rule, go back to the drawing board and craft a rule that won’t...