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In reply to the discussion: Supreme Court rules against EPA in dispute over regulating wetlands [View all]KPN
(15,670 posts)17. VOTE ... and expand the court!
In this decision, this Court wrote law, they did not simply interpret it's Constitutionality. This is from AP as it appeared in the Boston Globe:
Conservative Brett Kavanaugh and the courts three liberal justices charged that their colleagues had rewritten that law.
Kavanaugh wrote that the courts new and overly narrow test may leave long-regulated and long-accepted-to-be regulable wetlands suddenly beyond the scope of the agencies regulatory authority.
Justice Elena Kagan wrote that the majoritys rewriting of the act was an effort to cabin the anti-pollution actions Congress thought appropriate. Kagan referenced last years decision limiting the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act.
In both cases, she noted, the court had appointed itself as the national decision-maker on environmental policy. Kagan was joined in what she wrote by her liberal colleagues Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Kavanaugh wrote that the courts new and overly narrow test may leave long-regulated and long-accepted-to-be regulable wetlands suddenly beyond the scope of the agencies regulatory authority.
Justice Elena Kagan wrote that the majoritys rewriting of the act was an effort to cabin the anti-pollution actions Congress thought appropriate. Kagan referenced last years decision limiting the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act.
In both cases, she noted, the court had appointed itself as the national decision-maker on environmental policy. Kagan was joined in what she wrote by her liberal colleagues Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson.
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Supreme Court rules against EPA in dispute over regulating wetlands [View all]
BumRushDaShow
May 2023
OP
Creating a dystopian environmental future, repealing one EPA regulation at a time. nt
OAITW r.2.0
May 2023
#4
All nine concurred that the specific land/wetlands at issue in this case did not meet the
KPN
May 2023
#23
Not exactly. The decision set aside the agency's determination that the wetland involved was
KPN
May 2023
#30
Probably because it was narrow, pretty much focused on this one property owner
BumRushDaShow
May 2023
#38