Comment on “Ephemeral Streams” Are Critical—and a Supreme Court Decision Puts Them at Risk

“Ephemeral Streams” Are Critical—and a Supreme Court Decision Puts Them at Risk

Last year, in one of the most significant environmental legal cases in recent history, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority severely limited the federal government’s ability to regulate waterways. By narrowly interpreting the Clean Water Act as only applying to “relatively permanent, standing, or continuously flowing bodies of water” and wetlands with a continuous surface connection to those bodies, the court effectively cut federal protections for more than half of the country’s wetlands.

 

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