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Supreme Court delivers blow to key Biden environmental policy in unanimous ruling
Fox News
The Supreme Court upended a Biden administration environmental regulation broadly defining and regulating which water sources the federal government has authority over.
"The EPA ordered the Sacketts to restore the site, threatening penalties of over $40,000 per day," Alito's majority opinion stated. "The EPA classified the wetlands on the Sacketts’ lot as ‘waters of the United States’ because they were near a ditch that fed into a creek, which fed into Priest Lake, a navigable, intrastate lake. The Sacketts sued, alleging that their property was not ‘waters of the United States.’" Thomas Catenacci is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
The ruling ultimately held that the federal government's WOTUS definition must be restricted to a water source with a "continuous surface connection" to major bodies of water.