It's a very important W.
The Supreme Court unanimously scaled back the Environmental Protection Agency’s power under the Clean Water Act (CWA) by defining the “waters of the United States” on Thursday in Sackett v. EPA.
This is the ongoing saga of the Sackett family. They’re an Idaho couple who bought a lot in a residential neighborhood in 2004 to build a house, and in 2007 started preparing the property for construction. Then the EPA told them that their lot might be a federally protected wetland and that they had to restore and abandon the property or face $40,000 per day in fines.
They were also told that they had no right to take this situation to court because thousands in daily fines were not a “final action” by EPA....
EPA (and its Wisconsin counterpart) have been playing this ridiculous game for well over 40 years to one extent or another. In this case, SCOTUS ruled that swamps and wetlands are NOT covered by the intent of the legislation.
It appears that--with Trump's appointments--we finally have a SCOTUS willing to take on the Lord and Master bunch in D.C.
Let's hope it's not too little, too late.
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