{"id":26369,"date":"2023-05-25T15:20:04","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T15:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/uncategorized\/2023\/05\/25\/supreme-court-limits-federal-power-over-wetlands\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T05:03:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:03:06","slug":"supreme-court-limits-federal-power-over-wetlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/congress\/2023\/05\/25\/supreme-court-limits-federal-power-over-wetlands\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court limits federal power over wetlands"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Supreme Court on Thursday made it harder for the federal government to police water pollution in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/22pdf\/21-454_4g15.pdf\">a decision that strips protections from wetlands<\/a> that are isolated from larger bodies of water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s the second decision in as many years in which a conservative majority of the court narrowed the reach of <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/biden-politics-arizona-state-government-donald-trump-8d46b14c20cb0effcb52ace48220dcce\">environmental regulations<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The justices boosted property rights over concerns about clean water in a ruling in favor of an <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/us-supreme-court-environment-lakes-pollution-water-pollution-31034c1d9df1a63cc0841b29ac7a3fe1\">Idaho couple<\/a> who sought to build a house near Priest Lake in the state\u2019s panhandle. Chantell and Michael Sackett objected when federal officials identified a soggy portion of the property as a wetlands that required them to get a permit before building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By a 5-4 vote, the court said in an opinion by Justice Samuel Alito that wetlands can only be regulated if they have a \u201ccontinuous surface connection\u201d to larger, regulated bodies of water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The court jettisoned the 17-year-old opinion by their former colleague, Anthony Kennedy, allowing regulation of wetlands that have a \u201csignificant nexus\u201d to the larger waterways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kennedy\u2019s opinion had been the standard for evaluating whether wetlands were covered under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/laws-regulations\/summary-clean-water-act\">Clean Water Act<\/a>. Opponents had objected that the standard was vague and unworkable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Environmental advocates had predicted that narrowing the reach of that law would strip protections from more than half the wetlands in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reacting to the decision, Manish Bapna, the chief executive of the Natural Resources Defense Counsel, called on Congress to amend the Clean Water Act to restore wetlands protections and on states to strengthen their own laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Supreme Court ripped the heart out of the law we depend on to protect American waters and wetlands. The majority chose to protect polluters at the expense of healthy wetlands and waterways. This decision will cause incalculable harm. Communities across the country will pay the price,\u201d Bapna said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The outcome almost certainly will affect ongoing court battles over <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/biden-politics-arizona-state-government-donald-trump-8d46b14c20cb0effcb52ace48220dcce\">new wetlands regulations<\/a> that the Biden administration put in place in December. Two federal judges have <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/clean-water-act-epa-wotus-89ec06b09016564b0d721a6de9a9efb0\">temporarily blocked those rules<\/a> from being enforced in 26 states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Thursday\u2019s ruling, all nine justices agreed that the wetlands on the Sacketts\u2019 property are not covered by the act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But only five justices joined in the opinion that imposed a new test for evaluating when wetlands are covered by the Clean Water Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Conservative Brett Kavanaugh and the court\u2019s three liberal justices charged that their colleagues had rewritten that law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kavanaugh wrote that the court\u2019s \u201cnew and overly narrow test may leave long-regulated and long-accepted-to-be regulable wetlands suddenly beyond the scope of the agencies\u2019 regulatory authority.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p 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