The EPA and the Corps expect to issue a rule by the end of the year, writes jeremywbeaman. RestoringAmerica
The justices, at the request of an Idaho couple who ran afoul of the law when trying to build a home nearly 16 years ago, are expected to decide on what kind of definition should be applied when the Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers draft and enforce regulations on the"waters of the United States" under the Clean Water Act, a 1972 law that has been aThe outcome could upend the existing"significant nexus" test used to justify the EPA's...
"The plain meaning of 'water,' as elucidated by dictionary definitions and what have you, is streams, creeks, rivers, what have you — not wetlands," Schiff said. Justice Neil Gorsuch indicated support for locking down a clearer definition of"adjacent," considering administrations have gone back and forth between readings of the CWA in making rules. Adjacency allows agencies to regulate waters that are adjacent to more clearly defined categories of WOTUS, such as interstate and intrastate lakes.
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