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Supreme Court just undermined the Clean Water Act, I don't know who is supposed to be happy about that - agribusiness interests dumping pig feces and urine into
by photochemsyn 3y ago
Supreme Court just undermined the Clean Water Act, I don't know who is supposed to be happy about that - agribusiness interests dumping pig feces and urine into wetlands, maybe?
https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-rules-against-epa-wetlands-regulation-challenge-2023-05-25/ https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-rules-against...
> "The environmental advocacy group Earthjustice, which filed an amicus brief in the Sackett case, said the court's decision "undoes a half-century of progress generated by the Clean Water Act," eliminating protections from almost 90 million acres (36.4 million hectares) of wetlands."
- baggy_trough 3y agoTry to think about court decisions less in terms of whether you like the policy outcome and more in terms of whether they uphold the rule of law. This was a 9-0 decision so presumably it was based on something more than helping polluters.
- tbrownaw 3y agoThat's a different case.