The Wetlands Coverage of the Clean Water Act

How Wetlands are Defined and Identified under CWA Section 404

... covered with water) and prairie potholes. Characteristics of ... wetlands for the Clean Water Act Section 404 permit program. Section ...

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 ...

The Wetlands Coverage of the Clean Water Act (CWA)

The Wetlands Coverage of the Clean Water Act (CWA): Rapanos and Beyond. Congressional Research Service. Summary. In 1985 and 2001, the Supreme Court grappled ...

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 ...

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

The 1972 federal Clean Water Act (CWA) protects the physical, chemical and biological health of the nation's surface waters. That includes ...

Supreme Court 'Wetlands' Standard Under Clean Water Act | NRPA

EPA, 2023 U.S. LEXIS 2202 (U.S. 5/25/2023), the U.S. Supreme Court determined the proper test for deciding what type of wetlands were subject to ...

Clean Water Act | Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership

The Clean Water Act helps to protect rivers, streams, and wetlands through two permitting programs. One requires permits for any point source—for example, ...

Does the Clean Water Act Protect Wetlands? - Dogwood Alliance

Right now, many important wetlands are unprotected. The CWA needs to cover all wetlands with connections to downstream waters. Wetlands are ...

Clean Water Act Section 404 and Agriculture | US EPA

Wetland and water resources are found on many farms. These resources include streams, ponds, bogs, marshes, swamps, and wet meadows, ...

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

EPA on May 25, 2023, holding that the jurisdiction of the Clean Water Act extends only over wetlands that have a “continuous surface connection” ...

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, ...

Clean Water Act | National Wildlife Federation

The Clean Water Act is the primary federal law that protects our nation's rivers, lakes, coasts, streams, and wetlands from being polluted or physically ...

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

Clean Water Act's coverage of adjacent wetlands means more than ... a wetland for the wetland to be covered by the Clean Water. Act? How ...

Wetlands Are Imperiled—But the Clean Water Act Can Protect Them

One of the primary tools we have as a nation to protect and restore wetlands is the Clean Water Act. Wetlands covered by the act's pollution ...

Supreme Court curtails Clean Water Act - SCOTUSblog

The Supreme Court on Thursday established a more stringent test to determine whether the Clean Water Act applies to a wetland. ... covered waters.

U.S. Supreme Court Removes Federal Clean Water Act Protections ...

Environmental Protection Agency. Justice Alito, writing for the majority, stated that the Clean Water Act only applies to “'wetlands with a ...

Mapping the new Clean Water Act | Science

The stakes were, and are, high. Broader CWA coverage means more regulatory burdens, whereas narrower protections leave thousands of streams and ...

The Clean Water Act - Coastal Resilience

It is important to remember that the regulatory focus of the CWA is protecting the quality of surface waters. The dredge and fill of wetlands is restricted ...

Supreme Court Adopts “Continuous Surface Connection” Test For ...

No. The Clean Water Act covers wetlands only if they have a continuous surface connection to bodies of water that are “waters of the United ...

The Clean Water Act Flows in a New Direction, Leaving Wetlands ...

In February 2019, the Trump Administration proposed a new rule that will dramatically reduce Clean Water Act (CWA) coverage for wetlands across ...