On September 8, U.S. EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers published a final conforming rule amending the definition of “waters of the United States” in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent Sackett decision....more
On May 25, the Court issued a ruling adopting late Justice Scalia’s “continuous surface connection” test for determining jurisdictional waters under the Clean Water Act.
The Court’s ruling in Sackett is a decisive shift...more
5/30/2023
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