It took me doing my own research to find out what the heck this case is really all about.
A. It’s about the Army Corps of Engineers.
B. It’s about the clean water act and authority it gave the Army Corps of Engineers.
C. It’s about “wet lands” (any low lying land with water on it) and its about the clean water act’s flaw in not separating “wet lands” into what may have been historically “forever” wet lands and wet lands that may come and go under varying conditions, nor does the law acknowledge “wet lands” that a landowner, and not nature, created. ALL wet lands of any kind formed in any manner are supposedly not allowed to be altered by private parties (even when on your own land) under the clean water act, except by permission of the Army Corps of Engineers.
D. MOST IMPORTANTLY Congress, at a time when it had a rational moment, EXEMPTED farms, like Jack LaPlant’s from Army Corps of Engineers interference concerning “wetlands” ON THEIR FARMS.
F. And the judges have refused to acknowledge the Army Corps of Engineers has, under law, no standing on the cases it has been bringing against farmers regarding “wet lands” on their farms.
Fascist bureaucrats and activist judges.
~30 years ago I had a developer client who knew of a case where another developer had roughed in a large office/light industrial park. As part of that, there was curb and gutter put in for the roads. Well, that retained enough water that some govt enviro type tried to declare it a wetland.