The Supreme Court took up the question of what can be defined as waters of the United States under the Clean Water Act, a nearly 16-year dispute, for the second time Monday.
- Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson did not waste time during her first day on the bench as the Supreme Court began its new term with a challenge against the government's authority to regulate wetlands
- The Sacketts' property is not directly connected to Priest Lake, a popular tourist destination, but rather is connected by a "shallow subsurface flow."
- This gets to the heart of the issue before the justices this time around: if the clean water act applies to only surface flow or only continuous surface connection to navigable water
- Which test the court adopts could have a major impact on what waters the EPA can regulate
https://www.courthousenews.com/supreme-court-wades-into-wetlands-to-open-new-term/
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