This Supreme Court Case Could Destroy Water Protections

Gizmodo ^ | Jan 26, 2022 | Molly Taft

[Secret Agent Man]

The court is not in an ultra conservative stage.

What crapola.

[ClearCase_guy]

“There’s a range of outcomes [to the case], all of which are bad,” said Dave Owen, a professor of environmental law at the University of Califonia, Hastings.

That tells me that the government over-stepped its bounds in an egregious way and any halfway decent court will have no choice but to reign in the regulations.

[absalom01]

“Science, of course” Of course!

It always cracks me up when the journalisiming gets this strong.

[absalom01]

“Science, of course” Of course!

It always cracks me up when the journalisiming gets this strong.

[sauropod]

Precisely.

[Blood of Tyrants]

By “navigable waterways”, Congress never meant to allow the EPA authority to regulate every mudhole, cattle pond, and dry creek bed in the US.

[KevinB]

And thanks to the incredibly conservative makeup of the Supreme Court ...

LOL!

[Hojczyk]

It is how the government takes your land and does not pay you....like the endangered species act....like New York State banning fracking..

[proxy_user]

Well, guess what? They’re only interpreting two words in a law. If Congress wished to make it clearer, they have the power to do so.

[Equine1952]

True. Have a wet year and get water in a low spot in your pasture. Ka -Ching! Wet land! Then the effing Feds show up like a bad STD. Oh yeah, just as hard to get rid of too. A lot in this law is bad. The FEDS make it worse.

[ptsal]

Fairy shrimp in the hoof prints

[Lockbox]

Don’t worry about the water shed, all the Liberal tears over this case will recharge the water shed with Unicorn H2O, which the Fairy Queen will bless for all creatures bid and small…..

[Flaming Conservative]

By “navigable waterways”, Congress never meant to allow the EPA authority to regulate every mudhole, cattle pond, and dry creek bed in the US.

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That depends upon who controlled Congress at that time, and who would benefit from the Act. (Never underestimate the corruption in government; if nothing else, it helped contribute to a whole bunch of new bureaucrats, which is never a good thing.)

[G Larry]

It would be great to overturn this over reaching regulation.

I believe it will allow common sense to prevail.

[curious7]

It’s bias and propaganda, all day, every day. When the game of Cowboys and demo-commies starts, the media should be the first demo-commies in the game.

[kiryandil]

The issue is never the issue.

The Revolution is always the issue.

[griswold3]

Trump rolled back WOTUS provisions. Too bad Congress couldn’t pass a law banning the largest Federal land grab in history h/t Zippy Duval

[princeofdarkness]

Well at least the author didn’t the Romneyesque description “severely conservative” for the USSC.

[princeofdarkness]

Well at least the author didn’t use the Romneyesque description “severely conservative” for the USSC.