Supreme Court limits federal power over wetlands

21-454 Sackett v. EPA (05/25/2023) - Supreme Court

limits of federal jurisdiction over waters up to the enact- ment of the CWA. For instance, in Economy Light & Power. Co. v. United States ...

Supreme Court Limits Federal Authority Over Wetlands Under Clean ...

The five-justice majority held, with Justice Samuel Alito writing, that a wetland must be “indistinguishable” from “relatively permanent, ...

U.S. Supreme Court Limits Definition of Wetlands Under Clean ...

In short, the Court's opinion reduces the prior jurisdictional reach of the federal government (EPA and Army Corps) over “waters of the ...

The EPA removes federal protections for most of the country's ... - NPR

A 2006 Supreme Court decision determined that wetlands would be protected if they had a "significant nexus" to major waterways. This year's ...

One Year After Key Supreme Court Decision, Almost Half of States ...

EPA on May 25, a new report reveals that the states that joined West Virginia's brief supporting the limits on federal authority ultimately ...

After Clean Water Act ruling, states that want to protect affected ...

In May, the Supreme Court ruled that the Clean Water Act does not cover wetlands that lack a continuous surface connection to a larger body of ...

Supreme Court limits regulation of some US wetlands, making it ...

The Supreme Court is curtailing the federal government's power to protect some wetlands. A decision Thursday weakens the Clean Water Act, ...

Supreme Court Limits Clean Water Act Jurisdiction Over Wetlands

The Sackett II decision narrows those wetlands that are considered WOTUS, reduces the federal government's authority over certain water bodies and creates ...

The Supreme Court Gets Clean Water Supremely Wrong - NRDC

The Court ruled that wetlands—marshes, swamps, bogs, and other similar areas—are generally not “waters” covered by the Clean Water Act. The ...

Supreme Court Limits EPA's Power to Address Water Pollution

The Supreme Court on Thursday curtailed the Environmental Protection Agency's authority to police millions of acres of wetlands.

The Supreme Court Ruled Against Wetlands in 2023. We Can Still ...

The Supreme Court took a hammer to the Clean Water Act with its decision in Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), stripping federal protections ...

How the Supreme Court put the nation's wetlands at risk | EDF

In 2023, a majority opinion by the Supreme Court (Sackett v EPA) drastically scaled back federal protections for America's wetlands.

Here's What the Supreme Court's Clean Water Act Ruling Means to ...

The Court slashed federal wetlands protections, leaving them at their weakest in the act's history. In the aftermath, Americans should expect ...

Supreme Court rolls back federal safeguards for wetlands ... - CNN

The Supreme Court on Thursday cut back on the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to regulate wetlands under the Clean Water Act, ...

Supreme Court sharply limits federal government's ability to police ...

The Supreme Court has sharply limited the federal government's authority to police water pollution into certain wetlands.

Supreme Court limits EPA's protection of wetlands

In a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court limits federal protection for wetlands in a property rights case, saying the Clean Water Act does not ...

Supreme Court curtails Clean Water Act wetlands protections - ASCE

In a much-anticipated decision handed down in late May, the court significantly limited federal authority over certain types of wetlands and other waterways.

US Supreme Court Shrinks Federal Authority Under the Clean Water ...

The 9–0 ruling soundly rejected the EPA's view of federal authority over wetlands under the CWA and created a far narrower test to determine what bodies of ...

After Supreme Court Forces Its Hand, E.P.A. Curbs Wetlands ...

In May, the Supreme Court ruled that the federal government can no longer control discharges into wetlands near bodies of water unless they have ...

What the recent Supreme Court ruling could mean for U.S. wetlands

However, the Sackett v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ruling reinterprets the Clean Water Act, narrowing some of those protections — ...