Source: WASHINGTON TIMES, 10/9/17


The U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments Wednesday on proper federal court review of a dramatic overreach of federal environmental permitting. The issue in question involves the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 2015 decision to expand dramatically the regulatory definition of “waters of the U.S.” in the 1972 Clean Water Act. The EPA’s decision significantly expanded federal involvement over the geographic reach of environmental permitting and threw the federal permitting process into profound uncertainty.

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