Supreme Court weakens EPA power to enforce Clean Water Act (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/25/supreme-court-clean-water-act/
http://www.memeorandum.com/230525/p39#a230525p39
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"Under the Sacketts’ proposed definition of the law, they said, about half of all wetlands and roughly 60 percent of streams would no longer be federally protected."
This #SCOTUS is absolutely compromised and working to weaken anything that limits people with money and connections.
Its the definition of corruption.
That gets it backwards, though.
The issue is that those wetlands were never protected by the Act in the first place, so this had been the federal government claiming authority over twice as many (much?) wetland as the legislative branch ever authorized.
If we want to expand federal power like that, it needs to go through the democratic process.
Yes, the justices agreed unanimously that the EPA was never granted the authority that it claimed, even if justices had differences of opinion about where to draw the line in response.
The Clean Water Act simply never authorized what the EPA said it did.
Which of course legislation can fix if it needs to be fixed. And now it can be done properly and legally.
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Ohhh...ok, now I get it. Federal overreach? No one wants that. Thanks for clarifying and doing so in a respectful manner.