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VietnameseGriffin: ‘This is a win for every Arkansas landowner’
LITTLE ROCK – Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin today issued the following statement following a U.S. District Court judge’s granting of a preliminary injunction preventing the Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from enforcing a new definition of “waters of the United States” (WOTUS) under the Clean Water Act:
“This is a win for every Arkansas landowner—especially rural landowners who have ponds and creeks that President Biden wants to regulate as part of his ‘green agenda’ through the WOTUS Rule.
“I am proud to be part of this coalition of 24 state attorneys general who fought back against DC bureaucrats to earn this preliminary injunction. As Attorney General, I will continue to protect private landowners from the Biden administration’s overreach.”
In February, Griffin joined in a lawsuit in North Dakota federal court seeking to block the EPA and the Corps’ 2023 revised WOTUS Rule. In the order granting the preliminary injunction, the court found “that the new 2023 Rule is neither understandable nor ‘intelligible,’” and that it “raises a litany of other statutory and constitutional concerns.”
The preliminary injunction blocks the rule in the 24 states that are part of the coalition that sued the Biden administration.
To read the injunction, click here.
About Attorney General Tim Griffin
Tim Griffin was elected attorney general of Arkansas on November 8, 2022. He was elected lieutenant governor of Arkansas on November 4, 2014, and was re-elected for his second four-year term on November 6, 2018. From 2011-2015, Griffin served as the 24th representative of Arkansas’s Second Congressional District. For the 113th Congress, he was a member of the House Committee on Ways and Means while also serving as a Deputy Whip for the Majority. In the 112th Congress, he served as a member of the House Armed Services Committee, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Griffin is a graduate of Magnolia High School, Hendrix College in Conway, and Tulane Law School in New Orleans. He attended graduate school at Oxford University. Griffin has served as an officer in the U.S. Army Reserve’s Judge Advocate General’s (JAG) Corps for over 25 years and currently holds the rank of colonel. In 2005, Griffin was mobilized to active duty as an Army prosecutor at Fort Campbell, Kentucky and served with the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault in Mosul, Iraq). He is currently serving as the Staff Judge Advocate (SJA) for the 81st Readiness Division at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. Prior to his current post, Griffin served as the Commander of the 134th Legal Operations Detachment (LOD) at Fort Bragg, North Carolina and a senior legislative advisor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness at the Pentagon. Griffin holds a master’s degree in strategic studies from the U.S. Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. He also served as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas and Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of Political Affairs for President George W. Bush. Griffin lives in Little Rock with his wife, Elizabeth, a Camden native, and their three children.
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