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How would wetlands conservation laws not be constitutional?
by zip1234 4y ago
How would wetlands conservation laws not be constitutional?
- rayrey 4y agoTakings and violation of property rights
- drewm1980 4y agoEnvironmental conservation laws should be considered a matter of national security. We need to mobilize the military industrial complex on the side of the environment before everything dies.
- rayiner 4y agoAh yes, “we need to bend the procedures for the stuff I think is important.”
- tptacek 4y agoI think they're just advocating for more conservation laws, right? That is the procedures, not a bending of them.
- rayiner 4y agoInvocation of “national security” generally implies some sort of bending or exceptions to the ordinary rules. “We can’t reveal those documents because of national security.” “We need to indefinitely detain those terrorists because of national security.”
- rayiner 4y agoBecause Congress hasn’t passed comprehensive wetland conservation laws. The executive branch has invoked authority under the Clean Water Act, which applies to “navigable waters” which in turn is defined as “waters of the United States.” https://www.epa.gov/wotus/about-waters-united-states https://www.epa.gov/wotus/about-waters-united-states A marsh on your farm that isn’t connected to a navigable body of water is outside the reach of the CWA.