[cookcounty]

"In an opinion by Justice Antonin Scalia, the court says Wednesday that the EPA cannot threaten fines of more than $30,000 a day without giving property owners the ability to challenge its actions."

So....the EPA can still issue an edict in regard to my property and fine me $29,000 a day over an issue for noncompliance, AND I HAVE NO RIGHT TO APPEAL???? My only options are Obey or go bankrupt fast????

What happened to our country?????

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

The decision did not say that they couldn’t fine you more than $30,000 a day, therefore anything under that limit is fine.

The decision said that they cannot issue edicts, for example a $30,000 a day fine, and not provide legal recourse for those who which to challenge their administrative decisions.

People are getting so caught up in the semantics of a news story that they refuse to actually read the decision.

And we consider ourselves informed citizens on this site?

[Bidimus1]

The court still “wussed out” trying to let the undefined* term term “the waters of the United States,” §1362 which is general override “navigable waters,”§1344. which is specific. its sad that such great minds happily dismiss basic principles.

*But Congress did not define what it meant by “the waters of the United States”; the phrase was not a term of art with a known meaning; and the words themselves are hopelessly indeterminate ALITO, J., concurring